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Title: Nicely explained, worth a fav.
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Title: I'd like to look at good (not only full-featured, but also well designed) cross-platform mobile applications. I'm not so much interested in games as in apps that need to conform to the conventions of each platform's mobile UI. What open source apps using Phonegap, Titanium Appcelerator or similar have you admired recenty?
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Title: Message in their customers dashboard.<p>"Dear Customers,
We're experiencing a DDoS attack on our DNSv2 system at the moment - this means that any domains that are using DNSv2 or FreeDNS nameservers may experience intermittent availability issues.
We are currently in the process of mitigating the attack and are working hard to ensure a quick resolution. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused."
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Title: For the last several years I've been creating a ERP platform, Stockor. While I'm going to continue offering it as a SaaS, I've decided to also open-source it.<p>I'm hopeful that by doing so it will:
1) Grow it into a Wordpress size juggernaut with a plugin for any business process under the sun.
2) Bring me interesting consulting gigs.<p>The open-source site is at stockor.org. There's a demo up at stockor.com/demo as well.<p>Looking forward to hearing HN's thoughts!
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Title: The old Erlang mailing list/twit o'sphere is in a fluster. A manic phase: โWhatsApp - they'll no be asking who uses Erlang now!" preceded by a depressive phase "why isn't Erlang more popular?".<p>The Erlang community is the last place with insight into why Erlang is not popular.<p>So lets ask people NOT in the community. Here is a list of hypotheses.<p>Erlang is not more successful because:<p>* OTP means Open Telephony Platform<p>* Erlang/OTP is run by Ericsson<p>* the syntax is prolog-y & not c-y or ruby-y or python-y, its just too damn erlang-y<p>* no package manager<p>* no list of open source packages<p>* no community site<p>* the mailing list is the community<p>* everyone knows each other from Stockholm<p>* it is too hard to get a first working app<p>* lists for strings, aargh!<p>* no for loops, eek!<p>* variables don't vary, whimper!<p>* people don't learn OTP first but start with Erlang<p>* people don't learn Erlang first but start with OTP<p>* no docs<p>* too many docs but it is the wrong sort<p>* not enough teaching materials<p>* doesn't run on the JVM<p>* we used to think that it was because there were no books...<p>* Erlang Solutions isn't a proper internet company<p>* the language develops too slowly<p>* emacs is the IDE<p>Some things people are pinning their hats on:<p>* more books, yay!<p>* WhatsApp!<p>* Elixir is irresistable to Rubyists<p>* LuvvieScript will prove irresistable to the JSers (disclaimer, I'm lying)<p>* FP is trรฉs, trรฉs ร la mode<p>* LFE & Joxa will be the little lisps that can...<p>* something will turn up<p>* something better turn up<p>* oh God, get me another drink, even at Stockholm prices, I'll be here when something turns up, but by God, a feed of strong drink is the only way to endure the wait<p>It would be helpful if you would say if you have:<p>* never used Erlang nor considered it<p>* tried it & stopped<p>* use it regularly<p>So fire away. Do your worst. Hold nothing back.
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Title: I'm two years before heading off to university, but I have no motivation to learn the things that are being taught at college. I chose to study the subjects that I thought I would enjoy, but sadly this isn't true. I'm assuming that if I had made other choices for subjects, I'd be in a similar problem.
Maths is one of the subjects I'm studying, and although I enjoy maths itself, I'm not enjoying what I learn in school. I can't be motivated to put the work in, so that I can get good results at the end of the year.
I spend my free time programming or researching instead, but I can't continue doing this if I want to get the A-levels I need to enter a half-decent university.<p>Are there any ways by which I could motivate myself to study more?
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Title: nice expression of embodiment
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Title: Hey - made this post to explain the term sheet. Would love any feedback.
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Title: This question is specifically referring to startups, because startups generally have more risk involved.<p>I'm currently looking at job openings at startups. There's some that interest me, but I'm worried about some of the risk that comes with joining a startup. That's not to say that I'm not willing to take on any risk, but I at least want to know what I'm getting in to before I bet me and my families financial well-being on it.<p>That said, I'm never sure what I'm allowed to ask startups. Given that I haven't been hired yet, I would think some startups would prefer not to give out too much information about business plans or traction statisics.<p>Am I allowed to ask questions like:<p>- How much runway do you have left? What's your plan for extending that runway? If you're planning on new investments, are you actively seeking that?<p>- Why do you think this product will succeed?<p>- What's the end game? Are you hoping for an acquisition, or an IPO, or a lifestyle business? Something in between? Are you close to achieving that goal?<p>- (assuming I've found something the startup is currently struggling with, like churn... I mostly want to see that they're working towards smart solutions) What are you planning to do about your churn problem?
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Title: http://www.packtpub.com/<p>no credit card required, mailinator emails happily accepted :><p><pre><code> DOTDEBOOKFREE</code></pre>
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Title: Copied from https://www.mtgox.com/<p>February 26th 2014<p>Dear MtGox Customers,<p>As there is a lot of speculation regarding MtGox and its future, I would like to use this opportunity to reassure everyone that I am still in Japan, and working very hard with the support of different parties to find a solution to our recent issues.<p>Furthermore I would like to kindly ask that people refrain from asking questions to our staff: they have been instructed not to give any response or information. Please visit this page for further announcements and updates.<p>Sincerely,
Mark Karpeles
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Title: TL;DR If anyone has any work for me (strengths are Ruby/Rails, data mining) please email me. [email protected] (will go to my professional email) -- This is in regards to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7214446<p>If youโre in Minnesota and would like to meet with me, letโs meet.<p>Very-long; will read:<p>Iโm posting here so I can vent to people that I would normally talk to in my day-to-day life. My life, however, hasnโt felt day-to-day in so long.<p>Itโs felt like one, long clusterfuck of a bullet train inside my head.<p>Iโm not popular here or in the startup community (in the larger sense). I havenโt worked for any well-known startups nor do I contribute to any open-source projects. I havenโt developed any killer libraries and I donโt belong to mailing lists.<p>But I donโt let that define me. At all.<p>Thereโs nothing that I havenโt taught myself. Iโm very prideful and mostly confident about my abilities, but I donโt consider myself an all-star at any one thing. Iโm just pretty damn good at a lot of things.<p>I made a post on the Richard Lynch thread where we were discussing how the healthcare system is failing us because families shouldn't struggle to make ends meet. (and thus, my cover is blown) You have to go to page two to see the comment, and for the lazy: https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=iFI3WthoE1Lln4guTBx4gL<p>(continued on http://pastebin.com/b6pHpWfR)
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Title: I only have my own situation and experience to go on, so I will start there. I'm in my late 30's. I make roughly $110k per year. I am single, no dependents. I live in a studio apartment near Seattle. I drive a 10 year old economy car. I do eat out some of the time, but nothing extravagant, and no drinks. Overall, I am not absolutely as frugal as I could possibly be, but I think I'm fairly frugal. My biggest expenses in the last couple years have been rent, medical, and dental in that order. My retirement is very under-funded. I do have more savings than most people, but it isn't enough to change my lifestyle in any big way.<p>A couple things. I am <i>not</i> here to complain about my lot in life, or seek advice. I understand that I'm better off than most. I realize it is unavoidable that some people will argue that the economy is better than ever, and it's all about personal responsibility. I accept that - I can just ignore those comments.<p>The only people I know who seem to be comfortable and have their financial lives in order have had steady, high middle-management type positions for a long time. They're a small minority of the people I know.<p>My question is, <i>what is the problem</i>, really? I am fairly sure this is not the type of situation my grandparents lived in. I feel under a lot of pressure all the time, and yet it seems I am not quite 'making it' financially or materially. Is that how it is for everybody? Is something wrong with the economy, or is this just how the human hierarchy has always worked? Is it me, the country, the region, the times, or everything, or nothing?
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Title: Looking at the diff between the two versions of sslKeyExchange.c released by Apple http://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55471/libsecurity_ssl/lib/sslKeyExchange.c and http://opensource.apple.com/source/Security/Security-55179.13/libsecurity_ssl/lib/sslKeyExchange.c
I was trying to come up with a reasonable explanations of how this could have happened, but failed.<p>Here the relevant part of the diff:<p><pre><code> @@ -627,6 +628,7 @@
goto fail;
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.update(&hashCtx, &signedParams)) != 0)
goto fail;
+ goto fail;
if ((err = SSLHashSHA1.final(&hashCtx, &hashOut)) != 0)
goto fail;
</code></pre>
How could this ever happen? It does not look like a copy & paste error as suggested in other places,
it does not look like refactoring. Was it added intentionally to test something and commited by accident?
Is there any possible non malicious explanation someone could come up with?
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2014) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7324231
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Title: Last year I won a hackathon contest with a large group including only one other dev. After the contest we decided to keep working on the project. For a couple of months I played a central role developing the fundamental product concept, business strategy, legal approach, and the coding itself. Periodically I raised concerns that we still hadn't formalised equity share. My concerns were dismissed.<p>I discovered two of the non-devs had applied to accelerators without asking the team, despite me making it clear that in my opinion we didn't need outside investment. I handed over my work-in-progress and emailed the team saying I was moving to the "advisor tier" which the two had previously described as coming with "a small share of equity", and received positive replies from them. Since then I've been contacted by the other dev for assistance (he'd never heard of node.js - let alone the rest of the tech).<p>Less than a month later they asked to meet to give me a "token of [their] appreciation". They then ambushed me with an IP transfer agreement and told me that in their opinion I deserved no equity. I didn't sign it.<p>I contacted them explaining that if they wanted to buy me out, and retrospectively change our relationship, I would expect to be paid for the consultancy I'd provided, and quoted a fair fee. After 7 weeks I've chased them a few times and received a single request to meet in person (I declined as I want written records of all exchanges). The core two and the other dev have since enrolled in an accelerator - and therefore presumably lied about owning the full IP when they gave them equity.<p>What are my options?
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Title: Committed all my savings and blood into it. We had been full time for the past 8 months. He got a compelling offer from a famous company. Quit.<p>// Edit 1: Thanks for the helpful comments<p>// Edit 2: This is what I have at the moment:<p>https://bubbl.in (A Youtube of Flipbooks)<p>It is production ready. Rather just short of MVP.<p>// Edit 3: If you're in love with RoR/Javascript and Books, and wish to jump full time into this, please feel free to write to me at marvin at bubbl dot in.<p>// Edit 4: I do the design, HTML and photoshop. Can code a little too but still learning.
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Title: "Debate about laws governing filming on farms in Idaho started in 2012 when someone hired by Mercy for Animals got a job at a Bettencourt Dairies operation in Hansen and filmed workers caning, beating and sexually abusing cows.<p>The video was used to prosecute employees at the dairy, and it convinced Idahoโs dairy industry to create a worker training program to help prevent animal abuse. But it also set in motion a concerted effort by the dairy industry to make sure such embarrassing videos werenโt made in the state again."
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Title: Article on it:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/02/12/nothing-to-hide-is-a-very-smart-anti-stealth-game/<p>Back it: http://back.nothingtohide.cc/
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Title: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
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Title: The GnuTLS team has their announcement at http://www.gnutls.org/security.html#GNUTLS-SA-2014-2 but the announcement with details seems to be Red Hat's at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0247.html<p>"It was discovered that GnuTLS did not correctly handle certain errors that could occur during the verification of an X.509 certificate, causing it to incorrectly report a successful verification. An attacker could use this flaw to create a specially crafted certificate that could be accepted by GnuTLS as valid for a site chosen by the attacker."
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Title: My cofounder and I were looking at accelerators, especially the ones around Chicago and came across Lightbank. They have a program called Lightbank Start http://www.lightbankstart.com/ where they give you an 100k seed in exchange for 50% of your company.<p>We're new, have half of an idea, and no track record. Should we consider applying to them? (We are, of course, applying to the famous accelerators).
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Title: I work 9 hrs every day in the office and another 2 at home and my boss calls me in to say I'm not working hard enough and he's lowering my pay "to motivate me". I have a triple role in the company and am close to the product design / dev / roadmap decision making.<p>I feel humiliated and angry at the same time, and am in need of any advice on how to approach this.
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Title: We just announced our YC participation and we are now officially live in the US.
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Title: back in 2011 I convinced my wife who ran a small creperie in DUMBO, Brooklyn to start accepting bitcoins. We were one of the first in the world physical location that accepted this new digital currency [1]. In the next couple of month we received a lot of attention, but no one has purchased anything with btc. Then one day, my wife calls me and informs that there is someone who would like to pay with bitcoins. I got excited and asked her to take a picture of the guy because he is the first one and it's a historic moment for us.
He bought 2 crepes and paid using his smartphone and our QR code with btc address. One crepe and a lemonade was 1 bitcoin at that time :)<p>After he finished his food my wife approached him and asked to take a picture of him for being the first. He blushed and politely declined citing that bitcoin is an anonymous currency. He wished us well, added that bitcoins should already be in our account and left.<p>My wife called me back and revealed that he refused to take a picture. So I asked her to describe him. She portrayed the guy as a humble polite Japanese man in his 50s. We joked maybe it was Satoshi, but I dismissed the idea. I assumed it was some one from Mt Gox since it was located in Japan.<p>Today I showed the picture of Satoshi in Newsweek to my wife and she recognized him.<p>http://bitcoinbabe.blogspot.com/2011/07/bitcoin-sex-drugs-and-baklava-and.html
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Title: I was wondering what is the largest website you know of being hosted on digital ocean?<p>I am wondering if it is just small websites which use it or whether larger sites are making real use of the service.
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Title: There have been times in my life when I've wished that I had a fun side-project to work on, especially in a team, and especially something open-source. There have also been times when I've managed to create for myself a few side-projects which I have loads of plans for but struggle to find time to do all of.<p>I know there are folks out there who are in one of either of these camps right now, so with that in mind I invite you to 'advertise' your open-source projects in need of a bit of attention from some fellow interested hackers who might want to get involved. Personally, I have two at the moment that I'd like to get more done on.<p>Ideally, post projects with some open issues on GitHub/BitBucket/Whatever and a few details about the project (language, context, applications of the code). I'll put mine in the comments if it looks like this is useful to anybody.
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Title: As described by Douglas himself, DEC64 is a decimal floating point format for the next generation of
application programming languages.
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Title: The site is in French, but the lectures are in English. It has a lot more mathematical rigor than Hinton's course on Coursera, and oddly enough that makes the course easier to follow.
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Title: How many people on hacker news are running successful<i></i> online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?<p><i></i> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
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Title: TL;DR: I sent a friend a link to Kotaku that had the word pizza, and a Dominos ad showed up magically at the top of my browser. I disabled my settings not knowing these are enabled by default.<p>Long version:
Today I was surfing Kotaku for kicks and started laughing as I was skipping through the YouTube video / article about using a Red Baron Pizza Coupon that was 17 years old. (Link: http://kotaku.com/man-uses-17-year-old-coupon-for-frozen-pizza-bundled-wi-1539878046).<p>I thought it was great, so I decided to use Skype to pass the word around. No more than 2 seconds after sending the link out I had a nice "Order Dominos Now!" ad at the top of my screen.<p>FYI: Skype and Microsoft enable targeted ads by DEFAULT. I don't mind having ads be presented to me from past traffic/links/urls/etc. However, I thought it was really uncool that they are man-in-the-middling my chats to give me "a better ad experience" by parsing/mining all my chats.<p>Link how to disable: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA140/how-do-i-manage-my-privacy-settings-in-skype-for-windows-desktop<p>As always Buyer Beware, and if you don't pay for the product - you ARE the product.<p>Happy Sunday!
-Phrasz
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Title: Maps of the creator's behind all the Kickstarter projects
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Title: I started wondering about this in the recent STEM thread. As someone now in their early 30s I'm starting to wonder what the mid-late career as a software developer looks like.<p>Do you have to go into management to continue progressing upwards in pay and influence? I know this isn't the case at some companies (e.g. Google), but is it rare or common to progress as an individual contributor?<p>Is there a plateau in pay? Is there a drop in pay switching jobs after a certain number of years experience because places are looking for 5+ instead of 20+?<p>Are older devs not looking for new jobs because they have families and want more stability/are focussed elsewhere?<p>Is becoming a specialist rather than a generalist the answer?<p>And lastly: if you're in your late 30s, 40s, 50s, what are you doing at your job? What are the older people in your workplace doing?
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๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐ธ๐ป๐ถ๐ช๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ท๐ฐ? I thought each character was supposed to be different. Is it recognized as equivalent by all text-search programs?
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Title: I do come across job posts on the home of HN. Job postings by Y Combinator alumni, which are guaranteed to appear on the front page for a period of time.<p>How effective has been these posts?
Anyone here who has out the job post and can share some numbers?
Anyone who has applied to these job posts?
Others, what do you do/think when you see a job post?<p>We are working on a startup idea, and this question carries some value in validating our concept. However, it is not related to job openings. Our validation is primarily to understand user behavior.
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Title: There are <Dr Evil>one million</Dr Evil> choices when it comes to CRM's and from using Google and HN Search, I haven't found any decent threads on this for a while.<p>What CRM are all the freelancers out there using? I'm about to go solo and am not sure what to go for (Salesforce, Zoho, Highrise (though I'm put off a bit by 37 Signals' Basecamp direction) all seem 'up there'). Too many choices, could really use some HN advice.<p>I was planning on using Wave for accounts, and still undecided on project management, but I guess any integration possible would be desirable!
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Title: Everyone tells me this is a blessing, but it feels like a curse.<p>I enjoy writing code and the world of software, but I'm by no means an accomplished or brilliant developer. I can hack my way around some HTML/CSS and JavaScript, but I couldn't deploy anything more than a single-page application.<p>I also enjoy music, acting, singing... but I don't think I was born for the world of the arts. I want to make a real impact through technology, and the things I care about are problems that can probably only be solved with computers and money.<p>Georgia Tech pushed me to be so specialized that I quickly changed my original major (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering... I was a chemistry whiz in high school) to International Affairs, but even there I didn't find happiness, so I eventually dropped out of school.<p>I've had some jobs I enjoy, but none of them that really thrilled me. My favorite job was probably the year I worked at Apple retail in college, because I got to explain technology to people and change their lives in some small way.<p>I've done sales, support, and now work on a QA team, but none of these things feel like my passion, my joy. These are just jobs, with no semblance of a career path. I have ideas and goals of starting a company, but am unable to build everything myself, and lack the financial resources to hire anyone to help me.<p>My brain bridges the gap that our culture has between highly technical people (developers) and those who need to understand the outcomes and requirements (everyone else)... but I lack a college degree or any kind of real experience in product management.<p>I'm 25 and I feel fucked. Has anyone else been in this situation, and what did you do to get out? Did you go more technical or less technical over time? I feel torn between what feel like different paths, and wish I could integrate both sides into my work.<p>Relevant: http://imgur.com/WeMCypL
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Title: Summary of Blog Post (I'm not the author):<p>At Hacker School, I've been building an alternate universe Python by overwriting builtin functions and statements with Harry Potter spells. This is a thing you can do at Hacker School!
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Title: I am building a curriculum to teach people to code through meaningful, mentored open source contributions.<p>My first step is to find projects that would be a good fit. The students who are most interested are dev bootcamp grads who want to build portfolio pieces. They know the basics of (generally) Rails, Node and Git, but need experience in a bigger codebase than what you find in example bootcamp projects.<p>So what projects are appropriate? Is there a way to discover them algorithmically so that there is never a shortage of meaningful work for students?<p>I used the Github API to generate this list:
http://upward.io/help<p>These are projects that have no readme, but have decent ongoing commits. What are other ways to identify projects that have low-hanging fruit for would-be contributors?
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Title: 6 days ago I posted http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/202pts/im_taking_the_ads_off_my_popular_website_and/ ) about taking all the ads off my website ( http://www.spaceindustrynews.com ) and replacing them with donation links for BTC. I plan on doing this for 6 months and at that time if I'm not making enough money to keep the servers up I'll have to switch back to a traditional model.<p>Here's a recap of what has happened and what I've learned so far from my experience.<p>I've received some very positive feedback about my move away from traditional advertising to a donation based format. I've been contacted by numerous people in the industry ( NASA, etc. ) about this. They are truly intrigued and didn't really understand how I was going to keep the lights on.<p>The BTC community has been overwhelmingly supportive through this transition as well. I've gotten so many PMs from people that have built systems for easier BTC integration and I'm truly grateful for that.<p>How much BTC has been donated so far?
Day 1: I received 0.0125 BTC which equals ~ $8.00 USD.
Day 2: 0.0015 BTC = ~ $0.95 USD
Day 3: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 4: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 5: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 6: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD<p>There are probably a few reasons for this. One is that after the initial post moved down the page less BTC influencers were coming to the site. My normal audience comes from links and Google so who knows if they user BTC at all.<p>This news doesn't halt me one bit. I'm in this for a while and will continue doing what is right and what is good.
Like I said before, this is still only a few days old so there will be design changes, traffic changes. I'm still 100% behind BTC!<p>Thank you for the donations, I really do appreciate it.
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Title: This seems like a simpler explanation.
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Title: For a time there were lots of number based captchas on ReCAPTCHA using sites - presumably for Google Maps - but now they all appear to be a random mixture of letters. I can not solve them.<p>They're things like "rnmnnihmr" which is barely legible in plain text but when obfuscated - grunged, blurred and waved - I find it's taking about 8 tries before I <i>guess</i> the answer correctly.<p>Reportedly there are bots getting 90% correct.<p>Mainly this is just a statement of frustration but in part it's a question of "doesn't this mean we've largely solved OCR now?".<p>[I think the last time ReCAPTCHA was discussed was this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6615326.]
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Title: We're hiring.
htttp://www.nitrous.io/jobs
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Title: The Mobile Safari 'minimal-ui' property has landed... and it's awesome!
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Title: I am originally from a very small, out-of-the-way rural town. To find a job in software engineering after school, I had to relocate to a much more urban area a couple hundred miles from home. I've done very well in my job thus far, several quick promotions and raises. But, I really hate having to live in this area - not really my kind of place, and all my friends and support network are elsewhere.<p>At this point the only thing keeping me here is the fact that there are decent jobs here, and back home you're lucky to get in at Walmart.<p>My lease is running out in a couple months, so I've been thinking about what I want to do for the next year. The safe thing to do would be to find another cheaper apartment near work (I'm currently renting a place that's way more space and expense than I need, after a break up), suck it up, and deal with being stuck in the city.<p>On the other hand, if I could swing it such that I could do 90% of my work remotely, I could move back home, slash my expenses, be nearer to the things I love doing, and avoid the psychological toll of working in the office. Huge win for my mental and physical health.<p>The only sticky part here is how to convince my employer to buy in to the idea...
I'd be willing to take a 25% pay cut. Is that crazy?
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Title: The company's legal department determined that it had the right to go through a private email account, citing a leak of proprietary Microsoft code
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Title: nothing like a timeless ripple effect on your profile photo ;-)
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Title: I saw that people were looking for better getting started docs for Docker, so I put together the post I wish I found on Docker when I was digging into it.
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Title: A surprisingly long time ago (2013 was a busy year) I
mentioned a new plan to improve the quality of comments on
Hacker News:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6009523" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6009523</a><p>Since I'm going to check out of HN at the end of this
YC cycle, this was my last chance to get this done.
I didn't want the people who are going to inherit
HN from me to have to build it as their
first project, because it interacts with so many
different bits of the code in such subtle ways.<p>So I found time to implement pending comments this
past week, and with any luck it will launch tonight.
Since it's a big change, I wanted to warn HN users in
advance.<p>Here's how it currently works. From now on, when
you post a comment, it won't initially be live.
It will be in a new state called pending. Comments
get from pending to live by being endorsed by multiple
HN users with over 1000 karma. Those users will see
pending comments, and will be able to endorse them by
clicking on an "endorse" link next to the "flag" link.<p>Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till
it goes live to post another. We're hoping that good
comments will get endorsed so quickly that there won't
be a noticeable delay.<p>You can currently beat the system by posting an innocuous
comment, waiting for it to be endorsed, and then after
it's live, changing it to say something worse. We explicitly
ask people not to do this. While we have no software
for catching it, humans will notice, and we'll ban you.<p>Along with the change in software will come a change in
policy. We're going to ask users with the ability to
endorse comments only to endorse those that:<p>1. Say something substantial. E.g. not just a throwaway remark,
or the kind of "Yes you did, No I didn't" bickering
that races toward the right side of the page and no
one cares about except the participants.<p>2. Say it without gratuitous nastiness. In particular,
a comment in reply to another comment should be written
in the spirit of colleagues cooperating in good faith
to figure out the truth about something, not
politicians trying to ridicule and misrepresent
the other side.<p>People who regularly endorse comments that fail one
or both of these tests will lose the ability to
endorse comments. So if you're not sure whether you
should endorse a comment, don't. There are a lot of
people on HN. If a point is important, someone else
will probably come along and make it without gratuitous
nastiness.<p>I hope this will improve the quality of HN comments
significantly, but we'll need your help to make it work,
and your forbearance if, as usually happens, some
things go wrong initially.
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Title: Original title: Out of 15M brackets, only 1 remains to win Warren Buffet's $1B March Madness bet<p>http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the-dagger/there-are-no-longer-any-perfect-brackets-left-in-the-billion-dollar-bracket-challenge-003853949.html
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Title: After blocking the Twitter, people started to use Google DNSes and now they also blocked.
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Title: I've recently started working on a side project with a couple of friends, nothing crazy, but we're already spending over $200 a month on supporting services. It's nothing to write home about (yet!) but it was a little surprising.<p>For those of you who have side projects (or a startup for that matter) and don't mind sharing, how many services are you using and what's your total monthly SaaS spend?<p>Cheers
Luke
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Title: Hi HN,<p>A week from now I'll be leaving a high-paying/high-stress job at a big law firm for a part-time remote position (bitcoin related) that pays (comparatively) very little. I decided I wanted time to seriously pursue music, while also having time to read and learn new things (something I haven't done much of the last few years). Diving into the workings of bitcoin has also made me want to get back into learning programming, which I haven't really done since college. It's a big change and a bit scary, but I figure now is the time to do something like this, as kids are still at least a few years off.<p>So I'm looking to HN for general advice on budgeting my time and money -- I'll have plenty of the former and little of the latter. I really want to maximize this experience, but I also know that I tend to be a bit over-ambitious ("5 hours a day of music! Learn python! Work through euclid's elements! Start an exercise regimen!".) I've read plenty of great posts on HN about productivity, efficient use of time, and ultra-budgeting, so I thought this would be a good place to start. I'm also looking for any general tips about staying engaged and active while working from home.<p>If anyone has any advice or stories to share, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks, all!
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Title: I'm currently a student and wonder how developers tend to earn their money? Do you work for someone as an employee or have you got your own company? Or is it a mixture of both throughout your careers?<p>I do work part time as a developer in a start up and can't help feeling i'm building a dream for someone else. Not that the experience isn't really good, (It definitely is and I learn more in work than in uni!) but i can't help feeling that the current university paradigm of work hard, good grades, get a job seems to be bit of a misnomer unless you're happy building things to make others wealthy whilst you earn ยฃ30,000 a year?<p>Unless i'm missing something important, I am young and naive after all!<p>This is a subjective question. I just want to get a few thoughts especially from you old timers who want to tell a youngster some home truths! :)
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Title: After having censored the turkish people via DNS and thus restricting their access to Twitter everyone moved on to other DNS Services like Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4) and OpenDNS. Earlier today an IP-Ban was issued and immediately Tor-Usage from Turkey starts rising. What a magnificent people. Keep on fighting!
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Title: Nothing fancy, just simple tag/words based recommendation algorithm implemented in Ruby.
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Title: Ryan Bates announced he was taking a monthlong break from Railscasts -- he then updated saying he would be taking another month. It has now been about 7 months since his last message on the site, his last tweet, and his last commit on Github (except for one day in October). Is he okay? It is great that he is taking time off, 400 screencasts is a <i>library</i> if content to create, but he seems to have completely dropped off the face of the internet -- and with his last few communications sounding very tired, it is a little bit worrying.
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Title: I made this map of the 200 most popular flash drives on Amazon today. It looks a bit like a mandelbrot set :)<p>I made this for myself, because I wanted to have an overview of whats available. Do you think this is something people want? It could easily be extended to ssd-drives, monitors and whatnot.
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Title: Taking a look back after working with AngularJS for a year.
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Title: Hi all,<p>I am a developer and I have worked at a few startups which I have subsequently quit.<p>Everytime I get hired by a company, I am 100% motivated and committed. I specifically choose companies whose business I find appealing. I am not an executant who can simply code anything for anyone. I like to work for projects I support. I care more about the project than about the salary and benefits. I suppose that's the case for most of us.<p>However, it seems after a year or two in the company, the honeymoon period ends and the only thing I can see is the bullshit coming out of management's mouth. Bogus business plans, inability to close deals, short-sighted decisions, petty management techniques, overly frequent pivots, you name it...<p>Am I
1/ Bad at choosing my jobs,
2/ Too demanding towards the companies that hire me,
3/ Mentally unstable,
4/ Unrealistic,
5/ Just a normal bullshit intolerant guy
?<p>Is there any way I can find a boss I respect beyond a couple of years?<p>Tell me about your experiences. Thank you.
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Title: Hi, I want to ask HN for advice - a somewhat popular startup recently took a page straight out of Dilbert.
Is this common?
Should I do something about that?<p>I went on an interview at flipps.com and wrote some "sample" code to fix their horrible, memory-hungry iOS app. I only improved a single view of the app(because I suspected something like this might happen).<p>The company didn't wish to move forward and hire me to fix the rest of the app. I didn't think much of it and thought that was the end of that.<p>But to my surprise they immediately <i>shipped my sample code to production</i>!
Now, I am aware of the legal status of code written as a "sample" and they probably don't owe me money for it.<p>I'm not looking for vengeance, and I'm not really all that angry. There's more code where that came from and I won't starve without their business.
But this an unethical way to go about software development.<p>And it is especially dishonest toward their investors(who think they've made an investment in a technologically-savvy company, not just software thieves).<p>If you wish to drop them a line, the site is flipps.com, and their main investor is http://launchhub.com.
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Title: Since some people were alarmed about pending comments, I thought I
should explain what's going on with them. Sorry for the delay, but
between implementing them and now I've had to help get the current
batch of startups through Demo Day.<p>To recap, pending comments are a feature we hope might mitigate or
eliminate the nasty comment threads that sometimes occur on HN. It
essentially turns HN into the sort of hard-moderated forum where
comments have to be approved by moderators before being seen, except
to make it more democratic (and less work for us), any user over
some karma threshold can approve comments.<p>Since the implementation touches many parts of the code, and I am
at this stage still the one who understands the HN code best, I was
encouraged to write it before I left.<p>The plan from the beginning was to make it possible to turn pending
comments on or off per thread. Since the simplest v1 was to have
pending comments sitewide, I released it in that form first. That
code didn't break, fortunately. The next day I finished making it
work per thread. Or more precisely per item tree; a moderator can
turn on pending comments for anything from the whole site to an
individual comment.<p>When I announced pending comments I said the threshold for endorsing
comments would be 1000 karma. Some people have been alarmed by
that. But 1000 was nothing more than a plausible initial value of
a variable meant to be tuned by the moderator. In fact, the threshold
never was 1000 even at first; I set it to 500 in the first release.
Maybe it will end up being 50. The only way to figure out what
works is empirically.<p>Indeed, the only way to figure out if pending comments will work
at all is empirically. The plan is for the moderator to experiment
with turning pending comments on for individual threads. If that
works, maybe after tuning the parameters he'll gradually expand to
more and maybe eventually just turn on the feature sitewide. Or
maybe that will never be necessary. Or maybe software will decide
when to turn on pending comments.<p>Nor does the threshold for endorsing comments have to be karma.
That was the obvious choice for a v1, but it would be easy to
incorporate or substitute other things like account age or average
comment score, or even introduce randomness.<p>It's impossible to predict exactly how pending comments will end
up working, but one thing you can safely predict is that whatever
happens with them won't ruin HN. The main moderator is extremely
sensitive to the state of HN, and if something he did was making
the site worse, he'd be quick to notice.
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Title: I made a couple million and then lost it all, including the wife and kids. I muddle along now making enough to pay the rent. I don't want to end up like Phil Katz of pkzip fame, but I've come close. I don't know why I am posting this except as a cautionary tale -- stop drinking when you are young. Really. It doesn't get better.
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Title: The moment I step through my work door I set a timer for 7.5 hours. Once that timer is up, I close all my work, and go home.<p>There are 4 people on my team, who I honestly think just do not have their own lives. They come in at 8am, and leave around 10. Every single day.<p>I am at the bottom of our "scoreboard" for bug fixes, yet I work the most efficiently. They have 3x more fixes than I because they just choose to sit here for hours and hours and hours and just work, I don't get it.<p>Now I look bad in comparison, management doesn't give a shit (obviously) and I have already had my job threatened. "I have no problem buying out the your contract, you're the least effective on our team". And "Why can't you be like _________ and __________?"<p>My favourite part is, I designed the entire UI/UX for the app, I coded all of it for over 15 mobile devices. These people do not have the same skill set as I do. I explained everything to management, and they just told me "I don't buy it, I expect you to unofficially make up yours hours".<p>Now they want us to come in on Saturday. Of course the rest of my team has no problem with this, but I run my own company and any second I can find that is free, I'm using, and bet your ass I'm working on my own shit on the weekend.<p>I've never been so stressed out in my entire life.
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Title: Here is a valid reason for adopting DNSSEC or DNSCrypt. It's likely they're
using deep packet inspection. Using VPNs seems like the only valid solution
here for now.<p>Result from "dig youtube.com":<p><pre><code> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> youtube.com
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21333
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;youtube.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
youtube.com. 86091 IN A 195.175.254.2
;; Query time: 25 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.4.4#53(8.8.4.4)
;; WHEN: Sat Mar 29 13:59:52 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 45
</code></pre>
Result from "dig youtube.com @4.2.2.2":<p><pre><code> ; <<>> DiG 9.8.3-P1 <<>> youtube.com @4.2.2.2
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 61182
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 11, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;youtube.com. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.38
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.40
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.33
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.35
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.41
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.37
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.39
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.36
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.34
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.32
youtube.com. 197 IN A 173.194.113.46
;; Query time: 78 msec
;; SERVER: 4.2.2.2#53(4.2.2.2)
;; WHEN: Sat Mar 29 14:33:53 2014
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 205
</code></pre>
Clip from the whois result on 195.175.254.2:<p><pre><code> inetnum: 195.174.0.0 - 195.175.255.255
netname: TR-TELEKOM-960902
descr: Turk Telekomunikasyon Anonim Sirketi
country: TR</code></pre>
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Title: I'm about to graduate from college and have been contemplating about this question a lot lately, especially in regards to specific languages/frameworks (ruby/rails in my case)<p>I know that I'm not that most raw-engineering talented, but I believe I have dabbled a lot with web development (full-stack and again, Rails) that should give me a significant competitive advantage, so i was curious:<p>How do you specify/categorize junior/senior developers? Is it production-experience, language/framework knowledge, knowing best-practices or just raw engineering talent?
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Title: In view of the "new management" listed at http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hacker-news , first of all, congrats, and hope the job is not as thankless as it might have the potential to be!<p>Secondly, I (and I believe a number of others), whilst appreciating all the efforts that you guys are making to keep HN a great place to be, frequently feel baffled, hurt or just insulted by the way that moderation is applied.<p>I believe that the main reason for that is not actually bad moderation, but lack of transparency in the moderation. When you don't know why the article you just submitted dropped off the front page suddenly, you tend to assume the worst (whatever "the worst" might be contextually).<p>So here is a simple plea: please, please, please, make an effort to make the moderation more transparent. This will inexorably reduce and perhaps even eventually eliminate all perceptions and claims of foul play, and help keep HN a healthy place.<p>Transparency is such a fundamental, almost universal startup value. Surely it should be an HN value too.<p>Those who hide behind secrecy and refuse to explain their actions do so at the expense of trust. Be on the right side of this debate, please, please, please.
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Title: As a new bootstrapped business with an experienced team (read, older with families, mortgages and our own money), we are in a weird place when it comes to traditional accelerator programs. We can self-fund, have solid track record and experience and know our target market well. It's always going to be a 7 digit/yr thing. We're not on a track interesting to VC at all. We want to build a good business that grows.<p>What we lack, though, is the explosive boost in everything related to launching a new business that comes from being an accelerator program. We have thought of simulating it, but it's clear it's not the same.<p>Is there an open option that provides a similar framework for "the rest of us". If there isn't, why not?
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Title: I was hating on Haskell the other day. A lot of HN'ers apparently love it, because my comment was downvoted.<p>One of the replies said:<p>"I've seen experienced programmers failing at learning Haskell...the initial learning curve is very steep, and they don't see the value on climbing that wall...with Haskell, all those seemingly complex concepts come with a big reward." [1] [2]<p>My question is: I currently don't see the value proposition of learning Haskell. What is this great enlightenment I'm supposed to receive from studying Haskell? Can someone give me the TLDR version?<p>PS: If you say "functional programming", please elaborate. I know all about function pointers in C, and I've read the docs of Python's functools module [3].<p>[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7478274<p>[2] I don't want this thread to degenerate into a favorite editor flamewar the way the other one did, so I'm leaving out the commenter's clearly preposterous claim that learning vim is worth your time.<p>[3] http://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html
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Title: Hello.<p>I've had enough.<p>Hear me out. I've spent the last 5 years of my life slaving away on startups and new business ideas and I'm failing, bad. So tonight I've come to the conclusion that I clearly have no fucking idea what I'm doing. I've lost pretty much all my friends because of the time I've spent trying to make my ideas work. I have spent money I can't afford on ideas that have never came to light. And now it's 2:31am on a Sunday evening and my girlfriend is in bed wondering why I won't come give her a cuddle, but I can't. Because I know I have to wake up tomorrow morning and hit the repeat button on my life again. I have to work all day just to put a roof over our heads. She wants to travel and damn I want to take her so bad, but I can't. I hate what my life has become.<p>But I have a solution, because I know complaining won't change this. Truth is, I have no idea about business. That's why I can't do it. I come from a working class family, I have working class friends, no one I know has any idea about business or even any interest in the topic. I've read a lot though: on business, development, management & self help. I can do it, I know I can, I just need some guidance. So here I am; asking for guidance. I have about $5000 and I'm willing to put that into an idea, and I have some of those too. So who's ready to play ball with me? I can guarantee the technical skills, could you guarantee the business skills? Maybe together we won't need to press the repeat button on our alarm clocks next Monday.<p>Let me know,
hnineedhelp [at] gmail.com
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Title: An overview of how the Garbage Collector in Chicken Scheme works. Contains some good diagrams and code sample to help understand the topic and also a set of links to read more about the subject.
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Title: Dear HN,<p>I am in my mid-20s and I'm banking over 50% of my pay each month. This adds up to about $50k in savings at the moment. I'm maxed up to match on 401k.<p>The poor interest rates in checking and savings just aren't cutting it for me.<p>I don't want to risk too much, but how can I better invest this money?<p>For me particularly -- my goals are a nice car (60k), retirement, and I'd like to be prepared to purchase a home (130k in my area), although I am not immediately interested in home ownership yet...
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Title: I run a web site (side project) where users can use their credit card to send money to a friends checking account as a gift. It seems a user created multiple accounts with fake names then proceeded to send money from stolen credit cards. All the charges to the stolen credit cards where then sent to one final destination checking account which I have all the information on. I detected all this activity a bit too late (2 days late) so the money has been transferred from the credit cards to my marketplace to the destination checking account. Overall there were 5 different stolen credit cards used with over $2,000 in charges! As a side project this a big loss for me. I'm already starting to receive some chargebacks and it's stressing me out. As a result I have permanently shut down my project because this is a major loss, more than I have ever made from the actual side project itself.<p>I have visited the local police department, but they said since I'm not the victim they can't do anything about it (presumably the owners of the stolen credit cards are the victims here, so they have to file a report). They referred me to the FBI. So I filed a complaint with the IC3.gov. After submitting the form, it said that it may be a while before I hear anything since they have limited resources and they receive thousands of complaints each day.<p>What's really frustrating is that I have the checking account details where the stolen money was sent to! So it seems it would be an easy case to break. The authorities would have to subpena the bank account since I have the bank account number and bank name, it's not like they used bitcoins.<p>Can anyone with experience in this situation before chime in with some advice? What should I do? Please help, any information would be greatly appreciated.
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Title: I've been bootstrapping a tech start-up for the past year (having spent $25k+ on development of our platform plus all the other expenses that come with setting up and running a business) and last week a major competitor entered our niche market.<p>The money for the start-up was coming from my own pocket and funds were/are running low - it was crunch time, do I throw my last remaining cash trying to catch up with this competitor, or do I shut down.<p>I asked advice from a number of different sources, and the overwhelming response was to pivot the business by open sourcing and selling services around the platform such as hosting.<p>After a long weekend of thinking, designing, planning and building, I give to you:<p>* Opencall http://www.ocall.org<p>* GIT Repo: https://github.com/calltrackingasia/opencall<p>It would be great to hear your feedback and to find out if anybody would be interested in becoming part of the project.
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Title: (I'm going to rewrite this, because people have made some good points in the thread.)<p>Most April Fools' gags in tech are lame. Only the very best ones, such as those that show hackery ingenuity, deserve much attention on HN. I propose that we, or rather you, flag the others off the front page.<p>After plodding through them much of March 31 (where I am), I realized I was dreading the next 24 hours of having to read so many lame stories and decide which are real. Then I thought it might turn into a positive if I appealed to you all instead. This is a plea! You don't have to do it, but in my view it will help.<p>A word about humorlessness, since it's bound to come up. People who complain about HN's humorlessness have a point, but not because we're against humor. We like laughing as much as anyone. It's because empirically, a culture of humor means a flood of lame humor, and HN's goal is to optimize for signal/noise ratio. As with any optimization, there are inevitably tradeoffs.
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Title: I have a sense of humor. Really I do.<p>I just don't find being pounded with systematic absurdity for an entire day every year as being very funny.<p>I don't know how to solve it. It seems every single company and publication that communicates via the web has a corporate communications department or something that thinks it's a corporate priority to come out with something for April Fools. The Internet systematizes, amplifies, focuses, fully resources, funds, schedules, plans and implements high production value foolery. Corporate drone: "Larry, Sergey, have you signed off yet on this years $4M April Fools budget? How are we going to attract and recruit the best engineers unless we've got a reputation for the very best and most foolish April Fools trickery?" Ugh.<p>It's just kind of silly and boring and makes we wish April 2 would come as soon as possible. As I read the Internet on April 1 I just try to self filter out all the silly unbelievable garbage. Most news sites (including HN) are hardly worth reading April 1.<p>You know when someone who thinks they are funny insists on telling lame jokes, and the audience feels an obligation to give an acknowledging guffaw? It's like an whole Internet day worth of that.<p>I feel like the Grinch Who Stole April Fools but really it has to be said. If you've got it in mind to do some fine ol' foolin then maybe the classy thing to do is leave the foolin to others and spare us one more depressingly lame absurdity.
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Title: Hello HN people,<p>I'm feeling lost for a while and all the local people who I've tried getting in contact with, well, they all say the same thing over and over again. I want to drop college.<p>The big problem is that everyone is trying to make me feel bad about this, as if this would be the end of the world, as if there are only 2 choices in life: college or be a bum.<p>For me this feels wrong. I mean, I've started programming for fun at a really young age, and I've managed to get my first (full-time) job in the summer break after 10th grade and continued until I finished my high-school. Since then I've worked with a different company and in my spare time I've tried starting various projects of mine.<p>As I've said, I've started programming out of pure pleasure, and I consider that I've learned a lot like that, and now it feels like the only way to get by in life would be for me to merge back into some kind of slow-lane. I've tried going to college, and teachers either told me that I will be bored at their courses or that they will give me some extra course work (which the did only for the first time). The companies that I've worked for just treated me like some kind of valuable asset, and didn't even have a "career path/planning". I've stayed in a company for 1 year and carried out quite a lot of the work and was underpaid compared to the local standard. And when I left, they just told me they expected that to happen at some point.<p>It's really hard for me to believe that there is no place for people like me. All I'm trying to do is to keep learning at the same speed and with the same passion, bring my contribution to the world, but people just tell me that I'm too young, not experienced, etc.<p>Please HN people, tell me your opinion, help me understand what I should do!<p>*Sorry for my english, I may have slipped a couple of mistakes in.
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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility.
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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or VISA if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2014) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507753
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Title: In a similar vein to asselinpaul's post, I would love some feedback on deciding between MIT, Harvard, and Stanford for undergrad. I was fortunate enough to be accepted to all three, so now I'm in that tough (but amazing) situation where I have to choose one.<p>My background is in programming and mechanical engineering, but I think big and want to do more than just become an engineer at a company. I look up to people like Elon Musk, but I also realize that shaping my life after another's would be foolish.<p>MIT<p>+ Great engineering<p>+ Rigorous courses and student body<p>- Maybe not well-rounded enough for my long-term goals<p>Harvard<p>+ Amazing liberal arts (I'm all for being well-rounded)<p>+ Would teach me how to work with people<p>- Not known for engineering<p>Stanford<p>+ Great at engineering and liberal arts<p>+ Amazing network in the heart of Silicon Valley<p>- I live in the area and go to a private school nearby (I kind of feel like I need to explore the rest of the world)<p>I know I can't go wrong here, but I'd still love to hear your thoughts. I'm going to be visiting MIT and Harvard for the first time, so I'll make my final decision after that.
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Title: My daughter is 12 and has expressed for years that she wants to be an architect or engineer. She's also interested in medicine. She knows some Python and likes building things. She is also in need of some inspiration. I can show her medicine but I need some help on the engineering side. As it happens, her spring break is next week, so it would be good timing about now. PM me if you are interested. I would really appreciate it. We could probably work something out, maybe meet at lunch or something. I'll buy.<p>Edit: SD = San Diego. And for those recommending FIRST: our challenge with FIRST is that she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal.
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Title: I released an open source project a few weeks ago ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/ ) and I haven't done much publicizing other than asking for some feedback here (which was great btw!)<p>It already has some 700 github stars, and I've been getting a lot of positive feedback, so clearly there's some interest in it.<p>I was wondering how do people here go about promoting their open source projects to a wider audience. Any ideas, tips, experiences? Thanks in advance.
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Title: https://medium.com/p/e32d3955115
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Title: Hi HN, I made this throw away account because I am shamed to post with my main one, and also I really need help. I am a great full stack developer who struggled with procrastination all my life and despite it I managed to do some great things. Lately I have quit my well paid job just because I wanted to start my own business. Things are not going that bad, I got a gig consulting for a big company and also got a potential client to sell the project I am working on.
Now here is the main problem. Things are going really slow mainly because I lose focus really fast and end up spending most of my day playing(I started with LOL, now playing Heartstone and Diablo). I promised the client a MVP in like 3 weeks because I already had a lot of stuff done, but I managed to do almost nothing in the last month. The thing is I start working and after like 30 minutes- 1 hour I get bored and start playing and this goes on for hours and hours. What should I do because everything is falling apart for me right now and I tried to change it but all the advices did not work. ?<p>Quick Edit: I am working from home and I am living alone in my apartment, my girlfriend is 1000 miles away and we are having a really long distance relationship. I made a subscription to the gym but ended up going only 3 times. The coworking space here is not that great and maybe that is one of the reasons I did not go there. I also read a lot of books, used Pomodoro and other techniques for focus and self motivation(I also was listening to Robin Sharma while working just to get more motivated) but none of these things worked. Maybe I need some professional help.
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Title: By now, I probably stumbled a dozen times upon the problem that HN links do not reveal at all what they are about. To solve this problem you could maybe simply add the title string to the item ID like this:<p><pre><code> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7535606-can_i_delete_my_skype_account
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I think that would be fairly easy to implement and it could be easily made backward compatible by forwarding the old links to the new format. With a dash as separator itโs still possible to select the ID with a double click (at least on my system). I think that would be a great improvement. Thanks!
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Title: Are you still employed or retired? How does one's passion and aptitude for hacking evolve towards this part of one's life?
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Title: A small HN experiment. Every Sunday, a thread will be started to share product ideas. Why? Because many people have ideas they will simply not have the time to implement, and many need product ideas to work on.
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Title: The reason I'm asking is that F# appeals a lot to me (more so than Scala, the language that seems the closest competitor) but I have not found success stories from companies running their C# or F# web apps on Mono/Linux.<p>As a separate but related question I would like to ask what tools you'd recommend for developing in F# on Linux or OS X.
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Title: for BRK's annual shareholder meeting
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Title: Chrome isn't checking revocation lists anymore (source: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/02/05/crlsets.html) so for everyone reissuing keys today, their sites are still vulnerable for Chrome users, right?<p>I checked Google's own (custom) CRL and they don't have any serials from Comodo or Verisign's revocation lists, but they do have some from GoDaddy. Verified with https://github.com/agl/crlset-tools.<p>Update: Added Firefox to title based on mbrubeck's findings.
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Title: Hi,<p>I've been unemployed for a while and recently got an $8 an hour job through Kelly services. The name of the company is called Juno Pacific in Santa Cruz. I did excellent work, got along with everyone and had nothing but praise from my immediate supervisor. She jokingly said 'good job ,you deserve a raise' and other such comments regularly.
When I was quizzed at the little testing stations I worked at I did fine. It was easy rote work.<p>We had a meeting yesterday where the upper management ( who I had never met ) called in all the workers in my shift and told us about the productivity incentive program.<p>The productivity incentive program is this:
If you give the company any ideas that make them more money you are rewarded with a pizza party and you get to spin a cardboard cut out wheel that has 'big prizes' like a $25 amazon gift certificate. The grand prize of the cardboard cut out wheel is an ipad.<p>The manager mentioned one example of a single employee that thought up an idea that saved them $5000 a month. Presumably this person was rewarded with a pizza party and got to spin the cardboard cut out wheel and claim their prize.<p>The manager said that he would like to see each employee come up with at least 3 ideas.<p>I raised my hand and said that "if anyone here can make the company an additional $5000 a month you should treat them as a consultant and simply write them a check for $1000". I also said that the incentive program as is is a bit "maddening" and silly. I also mentioned that I've seen this kind of thing before at companies while implying that its simply not fair. After the meeting was over a few other employees expressed gratitude because its what they were thinking as well.<p>Today I was fired without notice. The person that was given the responsibility to notify me didn't give any reason except that my 'outburst was inexcusable' and that the decision came from upper management.
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Title: The latest beta (3) build dates from 2013.
The latest stable is almost one year old.
Several features are missing, mainly a proper go to definition mechanism.
Is the project dead?
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Title: tl;dr: How we got $10.000. We were able to upload an XML file to Google. The XML parser was vulnerable to XXE. We got full read access to their production servers, including the /etc/passwd.
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Title: I just read this [1] post, and I think we can do it at a big scale here at HN.<p>So, if you need any help with a project, a startup, or an idea, just post it here. Mention any details that might be required, and make sure to add contact details!<p>Let's see how we can get some good rolling here.<p>[1] http://tomcritchlow.com/post/82380207991/let-me-know-how-i-can-help
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Title: While I admit that the recent Heartbleed security issue is a critical issue, I am getting perpetually flummoxed by the 'I have the moral high ground' negative comments being thrown at the OpenSSL project & developers. Innumerable blogs and HN threads are taking the stand of 'how could they commit something like that', 'How idiotic was the committer', 'OpenSSL should not use a custom wrapper around malloc' and even taking personal shots at the two gentlemen who were referenced in the code.<p>Mistakes were made in code and processes, mistakes will continue to be made in code. What we need is:
* A formal code review tool. I don't know whether there's something like review-board for OpenSSL commits.
* Donations to the OpenSSL foundation. C'mon folks, practically all your online security depends on OpenSSL (Cisco, Juniper, Extreme, Huawei, Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia: I am looking at you). A bit of money back to OpenSSL (and OpenSSH + friends) would go a long way. Personally, I think these tools ought to be getting way more than Wikimedia (Just my two cents)
* More eyes on the code. Whether it's refactoring the code, formal code audits or full time employees from the fortune 500 companies.
* You to commit. This is an open project. 20/20 retrospective bashing does no one favours[1]. If you really feel strongly about something, get a patch out then start yammering about it.
* A security mailing list. Something similar to xen-security-announce. That way, major vendors, cloud providers, OS & distributions can get fixes baked by the time the general alarm is sent.<p>1.http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/analysis-of-openssl-freelist-reuse
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Title: I'd like to start learning undergrad math at a rigorous level.<p>As a CS grad I already covered certain topics like abstract algebra at a respectable level. But I'm lacking consistent and broad knowledge throughout all areas.<p>I'm looking for math books covering undergrad topics like SICP, which Peter Norvig described as "[...] a way of synthesizing what you already know, and building a rich framework onto which you can add new learning over a career" [1].<p>[1] http://www.amazon.com/review/R403HR4VL71K8
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Title: I'm the tech orientated founder (the other is the business guy), not the best coder but I understand my domain and know my abilities.<p>We brought in a guy as CTO to help us move past problems we were having (feature creep, project management, enterprise level etc.).<p>The guy has a lot of experience as CTO (I had very little, also little as a coder), and he was instrumental in getting us to the point of launch where we were enterprise grade ready (as opposed to hacker ready).<p>Now he is advising me to leave, that I'm not a good coder, that he wouldn't hire me if I wasn't already a founder and not what the company needs.<p>I have improved significantly in the last few months from where I was (generally unstructured development, no tests, poor formatting / naming etc., but functional, generally coding to working with others instead of by myself) but he has said that it's not enough.<p>We have hired another coder who I get along well with and I have learned from.<p>My question is, does he have a point? Is this something that is common? Has he overstepped the boundaries?<p>EDIT: He's not asking me to leave now, since I'm still desperately needed, but in 3-6 months time after we have raised more funding.
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Title: We talk a lot about ideas and there is "Show HN" for when you reach a somewhat working state, but what about in between? There seem to be many people struggling with motivation to continue on their side projects, so how about having a weekly post where you can post a progress screenshot?<p>The concept is based on Reddit's "screenshot saturday" meant for indie game devs. For example the most recent one is here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/22tpar/screenshot_saturday_166_better_than_pax/<p>So if you like the idea, please post a screenshot and a few words of explanation on what you have been working on for the past week.
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Title: Defective decks had non-uniform edge pattern, dealer rotated certain cards at Ivey's open request, mechanical shuffler left cards in same orientation... allowing Ivey to read some obscured/upcoming cards.
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