skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely disagree with what you're saying, but it may be because of the city that I'm living in - Columbia, SC. Many, many shops and stores down here don't take credit cards and it is not rude to the customer at all. In most cases the store has been around since before credit cards were popular and it is you who should adapt to the store, not the other way around. And there will always be stores that couldn't function with the cost of processing credit cards (not only the transaction cost, but the time and equipment cost to setup and maintain a processing system).

Basically you learn to have an extra $20 on you when you're walking around certain areas of the city and it's not a big deal at all.
There are at least dozens if not hundreds of such grids done with html and javascript.
> pass the buck onto your customers (even as a credit card usage fee),

Visa and Mastercard expressly prohibit surcharges for transactions made with their cards so that is not a workable solution.
X.commerce: eBay, PayPal and Magento
The first thing that comes to mind is that I'd want to be able to make the replies more dynamic. Maybe a model like Yahoo! Pipes (does that still exist?) where I could build a dictionary app, or a weather app, or anything like that. Though I understand that wasn't your initial goal with that and that it's not an easy task :)

As far as the page goes, I could use an example I think.

One thing that might be useful to some would be to have a static URL for the app, so that you can change the app without changing the URL in your Twilio settings. (right now, the app lives in the URL)

And I would add a link to the Twilio settings page next to the URL at the bottom of the page.
I think maybe the endpoints can be targeted where bitcoin is traded into dollar. But I have a limited understanding.
Mirroring Wikileaks is not illegal, First Amendment... highest law in the land.
No it wouldn't. You can determine if someone is running Tor, but not which sites they are visiting with it. That's sort of the whole point.
Thanks for the info - I'm really surprised I never noticed one of these before. I wonder if it would make sense to just include a link saying something like "what's this?" or "promotion" that linked to a page explaining. I don't mind the promotion for the in-house teams though. Good luck Listia.
Why Groupon's Critics are Short-Sighted
People were talking about it on Reddit as being like Reddit used to be before it went downhill.

Apparently this was about 2½ years ago.
The most interesting thing about bitcoins is that when the cops come and seize your big pile of bitcoins, if it's on a truecrypted drive, and you don't give them the password, or they shoot you because you appeared armed with a USB drive, that just increases the value of the bitcoins in general and the cops can't use it to buy a new police helicopter. This is the most dangerous aspect of bitcoins by far. If properly protected, they cannot be confiscated.
I think the similarity started more around C# 3 when C#'s syntax was changed to make functional programming less painful.
Oh, thanks for the heads up. I used a mobile app to post it... I guess there's a bug.
Android grows in top U.S. smartphone spot, with iPhone second
So, they've been using Zend Framework for 10 years?
iPad telepresence robot roams the WWDC keynote line
"Better than real sports"

rolls eyes
New airport scanner which will take just five seconds
Maybe I have experience, maybe I track things, maybe Email is more popular than rss. But why the attitude?
"No More Fish in the Sea"
> I would expect that dispatching on my object should still invoke my method, but weeks is always referring to its own, I understand.

Correct. But if singular itself was publicly exported by Dates, when you defined your own specializations of it in your module, they will go into the same multimethod that Dates is using. The big limitation here is that you can't replace the version that Dates has specialized on String by specializing on the same type.

The way this works is that when you import a multimethod from another module, you're importing the exact same multimethod object that that module is using. If you then define your own specializations, the original module can see them too.

This is necessary to make overriding work at all, though it's a bit confusing in some ways. Honestly, I feel like I'm still trying to wrap my head around it too.
...and thus the concept of the "cash discount" was born.
"accepting...I.O.U.'s"

One of the coffee shops I frequent also accepts IOUs, plus they do one other thing: you pay as you leave, not when you get your coffee. Now, this has two benefits:

First, means that the barista has to keep track of things...they have to actually have a relationship and interaction with the customer. That's very positive.

Second, it means that I often go get a second cup, or a pastry, because I haven't closed out my bill yet.
Good points. I probably spoke a little too hastily. I have become a bit aggressive about allegations of firefox's memory 'leaks' over the years, but I guess this is one place where people are actually informed enough to make them legitimately :)
The performance issues have just been masked with caching. The template layer makes hundreds of useless classes each request. Could speed it up 40% or so with flyweight pattern on the template classes. Could reduce memory usage each request by not using XML config files and not included configs for modules that are turned off.
Yes, we're being conned by lobbyist-written "research" that contains wild (but always bad) guesses about the piracy impact but which has nothing to do with the real world.

It's been going on for a long time now. Remember how they compared the VCR to the Boston Strangler? Yeah, only to go on and make billions of dollars off of it.

If they really want to investigate something that's hurting the industry, maybe they should look into that Hollywood accounting thing.
Contrary to popular belief and government propaganda, online poker players aren't any more likely to launder money than you are.

Back to the article, like another poster said, how is a bitcoin-based drug site any different in terms of anonymity than a cash-based one if you have to give your address out at the end anyway?
New iOS5 Features
Thanks gaius for your words,

Yeah, the 'could probably' responses are the ones I watch out for...

RE: the post, .NET PEOPLE, and resources to find those people.

BizSpark is a great program (we're a part of it) but still young. I don't think BizSpark alone is incentive for a young adult developer to start learning .net (therefore depleting the # of .net people in the future).

thoughts?
My absolute favorite breakfast joint does not take CC. The place is packed every day, and consistently gets voted best breakfast in my city. If you provide a good product, customers will put up with a minor inconvenience like walking half a block to the bank to withdraw some cash.
Don't know much about rails but for Django there

- Satchmo(http://satchmoproject.com/)

- Lightening Fast Shop (http://www.getlfs.com/)

More info

- http://djangopackages.com/grids/g/ecommerce/

- http://readncode.com/blog/the-state-of-ecommerce-in-django/

I used Satchmo sometime back and it's a very good but low level solution. You can do a lot with it.

I did not use LFS but it seems something which can help you setup a cart very quickly, like pinax does for social sites.

EDIT: Fully agree about Magento/WP. From a cursory look into Magento internals seemed of questionable design and unnecessarily complicated.
http://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/77782030020128768
I like how senator's statement sounds more like a positive site review:

Even more amazing, said Schumer, is that users rate their delivery performance and the quality of the drug on the site.
Have you ever watched the interesting casters like Husky Starcraft? It gets intense, much more exciting to watch than golf or NASCAR.
I really think this is the beginning of the end for bitcoins. Once the government starts going after the endpoints you will start to see the price of bitcoins dropping as everyone tries to liquidate them. I was wondering when this was going to happen. Maybe the next design will improve on these flaws?
At the risk of carrying on a conversation... I would like to reply to that. I certainly agree with that and appreciate your clarification.

However, what is happening is that Wikipedia is attempting to deal with very technical topics. As such there is a great divide between the techniques that are empirically observed to successfully collate general knowledge and the tried and tested techniques, developed over hundreds and even thousands of years for collating technical knowledge.

Precisely because academics have so little time to communicate their knowledge to nontechnical audiences there is a dire need for an approach that can successfully deal with this very difficult problem. My claim is that the wikipedia approach is so far not as successful in this area.

On forums where ignorance is king, I frequently advocate the use of Wikipedia to inform. Both aspects need to be understood. There are many people for whom Wikipedia should be a tremendously important tool. In forums like this, I emphasise the other side of things. The Wikipedia approach has its limitations as a means of disseminating precise and technical information.
HMMM Just thinking... what if Linux distros used HTML5/Javascript for a GUI Desktop Shell (Like Windows 8)? What if it became a true cross-platform development environment?
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1408564
It will be interesting to see how the OS installs over itself now that it is being distributed through the app store. I wonder if they will create a new partition with the installer and reboot into it.
This work is really cool and is attacking an important problem in a lot of datacenter networks. It's also great that they've released the source code too. As someone who's worked on this problem, I encourage those interested in reading up more about this.

Here are a few papers on the problem in chronological order:

1. Original paper briefly talking about the "incast" TCP problem in storage environments: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1049998

2. Our follow up work on that problem from a few years back: Measurement paper ( http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1364825 ) and our initial solution ( http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1592604 ) with a microsecond retransmission Linux patch here: https://github.com/vrv/linux-microsecondrto

3. Another paper talking about Incast in Datacenter environments, focusing on a different form of the workload: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1592693

4. RAMCloud - a project that briefly talks about the need for low-latency transports: http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/ramcloud.pdf

5. ICTCP - paper from last year that tries to solve the Incast problem using receiver advertised window algorithms: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/co-next/2010/CoNEXT_papers/13...

DCTCP tries to go beyond solving the Incast problem and focuses on trying to control buffer occupancy in datacenter environments that contain both long flows and bursty flows.

I think these papers all assume lossy link layers (Ethernet), but there are standards and other technologies (Datacenter Ethernet, Myrinet, Infiniband) that aim for lossless link layers to make the transport problem easier, but come with various other drawbacks today (cost, compatibility, etc.). In the meantime, I hope DCTCP or the microsecond TCP patch prove useful in solving some of these problems.
I wonder how much of a wrench in the works that will be for Hackintosh people.
don't read -- boring nonsense ahead.

there are only two things a person can do in this world.
work and R/W in culture.

work is work and everybody knows that. work gives $'s which in a reasonable society should prove good enuf for the "cultural participation" part for everybody.

if a person is culturally talented, people are willing to take over this person's share of work, since talent is so rare.

now coming to culture -- why is there a need for a singular culture here ? deciding whom to marry, what hobbies to have, obsessions of one'es choice, dance style, favorite music genre, drug of choice ... why should the government give a fuck about this ? no organisation should have exclusivity over this. it is simply mad if culture's growth is infected by fancies of one single organisation.

what is the role of government then ? documentation, archival, monster jobs, economic advice in difficult times and nothing else.

whats wrong with the current government ? instead of doing the above ... they have become culture czars.
It's only available through the Mac App Store. So how can people upgrade from 10.5 without going the extra step to 10.6, which is required for the app store?
I think it is entirely possible Bitcoin will provoke the mother-of-all battles for control over communication networks and how people use them. The outlines are very clear: Bitcoin allows nearly complete escape from the current financial regulatory systems that control currency movements and taxation. Trying to prevent people from moving money from one country to another or using Bitcoins for buying drugs, weapons, whatever is impossible without a truly draconian censorship and control regime in which private citizens are more or less forbidden from using encrypted communications.

I see government control over money as basically an immovable object - I don't think so-called constitutional protections mean anything when it comes to governments doing what they feel is necessary to maintain control. Internet freedom and encryption are not as much of an irresistible force as net-romantics would like to think.

If anything can force governments into legislating backdoors into all encryption systems and creating a clearly established set of "choke points" for control of data flows, it is the possibility of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies to render basic imperatives of the modern nation state impossible to enforce.

It is more or less infinitely depressing to me, because as much as I would like to believe that the "good guys" are going to win, I doubt it. People generally don't realize how much we are already living in a dystopian panopticon, and Bitcoin is one of the rays of light shining through the cracks in the prison walls.

What is even more depressing to me is my own cowardice. I am too scared of the US government to even try to resist in any way, no matter how trivial. I would like to participate in Bitcoin and other projects, but I don't want to end up in a federal prison for conspiracy to assist in money laundering and tax evasion, as I imagine that any participation in Bitcoin will be interpreted by government prosecutors of the near-future.
Silk Road, btw, has responded on the forums; I quoted them here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/hscno/bitcoin_is_an...
Supposedly there are no reboots. No idea how they're managing that.
Should they make Tor illegal too then because it helps you stay anonymous? Should they make it illegal for people to sign-up with a fake name to social networks, websites and commenting systems?

Just because something is anonymous doesn't make it inherently bad. It's how you use it that can make it bad. If hackers can hack into sites anonymously, it doesn't mean we should ban all anonymity.
If you're familiar with Django, I'd check out django-shop or satchless. They're much more developer geared, and a little less "finished product".
The only conclusion he draws in this article is not to take on a third founder immediately, everything else is just numbers and showing what happens in the typical acquisitions all the way out to the extremes.

He's not advocating single founder startups, stop the pointless arguments.

The most interesting part:
"if you raise a third round (or even a fourth), that pushes the needed sale price up further. If you're at 10% founder share with two co-founders, you'd need a $100M exit to get your $5M."

Yikes.
According to [1], Phil Schiller said "no reboots". Any idea how that is accomplished, or was it a misstatement?

[1] http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/06/wwdc-2011-liveblog-steve-..., Ctrl+F for "reboots"
"Go To Considered Harmful" Considered Harmful
Hmm... so what happens if my hard drive crashes and I replace it myself?
Oracle Brings 17 Security Fixes to Java SE in June Patch Update
The download only distribution will be a nuisance for 64G SSD MacBook Airs like my wife's laptop. She often only has 5 or 10 GB of free disk space.
Can't you typically only upgrade to the next revision up? e.g. 10.5 to 10.6
A lot of great startups were engineered by non-"real professionals", meaning they had little to no formal training in software development and/or little to no experience developing software in a professional setting. A lot of SOP is learned along the way; it is not always so obvious at the outset.
Kind of sad to see several startup products copied in Lion and iOS 5.

For example:

Dropbox - Air Drop in Lion

Readability - Safari Reader

Read it Later / Instapaper - the Safari Reading list

Also interesting to note how blatantly they copied the notification system in Android. Almost as blatantly as android copied almost everything from iOS.

All's fair in love and war, I guess.
I personally prefer the league model of GOMtv.net or MLG.com to the individual user channel structure that Justin.tv has pursued here.

When people sit at home watching sports they want to see the latest game from the NHL/MBA/NBA/NFL, etc, not a stream someone's recorded in the field across from their house.
Were there compromises in Scala's design because it targetted the JVM?
uhhh... check your math bro -- as of this moment there are 6,453,450 BTC in existence -- and you can buy them for $18.24 a piece leading to -- 117,710,928M USD -- sure it isn't a billion but it's more than enough to hustle a few hundred k through whenever you want
Maybe something Ksplice like?

http://www.ksplice.com/
I have bought these donuts before, and definitely did not care that they came from Fred Meyer (I remember him mentioning it, slightly apologetically).
It tied to your apple account . You can login into app store and install it without having to pay again just like how the current app store works with other apps.
Presumably Apple thinks they should get Lion preinstalled on a new Mac, since 10.5 users are due for a hardware upgrade anyway (from Apple's point of view).
Forward exercising in an early stage startup is a great idea. The company doesn't yet have a meaningful valuation so you can exercise for next to nothing. The board typically sets the strike price of options low so that employees don't wonder if their options are already underwater. Also, by exercising early you pretty much guarantee that there is no difference between strike price and value at time of exercise, so you owe no taxes up front. Later, near IPO, when the value is much higher and set by external factors, it's no longer a good idea.

By exercising early, you effectively own stock at the date of exercise. If the company goes public or gets acquired, your gains are already long term capital gains as long as it's been a year. Also, you don't have to wait once the company goes public to exercise your options, then wait a year... you can sell right away, lock-up periods aside.

To summarize, early exercise is a cheap way to avoid paying taxes on your options until you sell the shares later. And then you're paying the long term capital gains rate on cash earned, instead of short term capital gains on a volatile stock which could easily go down in value.
Yeah but typically you can grab a disk and do a clean install from 10.0 to 10.5. He's saying that now you have to do a clean install from a disk to get to 10.5, and then MAS 10.5->10.6, which is more work.
I like that this makes it easier to steal unreleased code, demos, etc by just enumerating all possible subdomains of localtunnel.com that are 4 alphanumeric characters long.
“You bring your Mac to the Apple Store!” is probably the answer Apple would give you.

There might also be a way for you to put the installer on some drive. (There currently is one with the Developers Preview. It works just like the dmgs of older OS X discs and you can find it inside the App bundle of the installer you download in the App Store.)
If creating a new class took an hour would it be a bad excuse? How about a day?

Getting rid of "Too much work" is the point of software.
Maybe they will be offering something which will free up space on her machine to cloud storage.
Top New Mac OX Lion Desktop Features
Starcraft 2 is a great competitive game that requires sport like skill to excel at. Husky's definitely one of the most energetic casters but you should check out Day[9]'s Daily podcast for a glimpse behind the curtain.

http://blip.tv/day9tv
Chuck Schumer exemplifies the Nanny State: You aren't enlightened as we politicians are. Therefore, we will make the decisions regarding your health for you.

Democracy should exist to create/manage public goods, not private ones. A drug or an electronic store of value that a group of adults voluntarily use isn't any of my business. Everything is Schumer's business, apparently.
4GB isn't insignificant in countries with bandwidth caps.
Replacement harddrives tend to be empty.
Coming from a smaller city in Florida I was surprised at how many cash-only restaurants there are in Berkeley, I mean, it's the Bay!

Granted, Berkeley seems to have its own notion of what it's culture should be and people don't seem to mind paying cash only. I think it's important to realize that you are projecting your own expectations onto other people's products, and in their minds they are perfectly happy losing your business so that they can focus on cultivating the kind of customer base they want.

Take Starbucks as an example of the opposite extreme, they take credit cards, drive thru, have uncomfortable chairs and loud music to discourage seating all in the effort to move as much coffee as possible. Starbucks does pretty well, but it's probably in this guys best interest not to try and copy Starbucks.
The Apple Store’s 10th Anniversary Poster
If you are a patron at a place you like, and you want to support them, you pay in cash, and its polite of you to do so. Thats a little bit extra for the establishment and a little less for Visa/EDS/Chase or whatever payment chain your transaction flows through.
But again, that's precisely the whole point. The natural law is whatever we decide it to be. Whereas you say 'made up' with its connotations of fantasy, the 'unreal' nature of our abstractions does not distract from the fact that they're very real in practice.

In other words, there is nothing to invoke but natural law; and there is nothing behind natural law. Invoking natural law is _itself_ the means by which natural law gains utility.

What laws do you think are real? The only 'real' law is the Sparrow Predicate: what a man can't do, and what a man can do. _Everything else is built upon this._

That is to say, it is distracting and adding nothing sensible to point out that physical property, too, is an abstraction--it is merely an extension of the original point, which is: people don't buy into the intellectual property concept nearly as much as the physical property concept.
There is something very sinister about publicly sending a passenger down the suspicious-person tunnel.
So if I were to sum it up (talking about the local business part), the problem consists of:

- Fragmented and competitive market due to low barriers to entry

- High-maintenance, low-yield customers

Thank you for your reply and the food for thought.
What you're missing here is that every time a new industry was born to keep the reproduction rights. What is being determined now is who will control this industry. In the future, people who pirate music will be like the singers of the early 1900s. Today's musicians, instead, pay a price for every albums sold with a particular song -- that money goes to the "music publisher".