skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm inclined to believe the same thing.

I'm not so much irked by "UX Designers", as they have a seemingly useful role if you consider what they claim. Many of their practices however are laughable at best and rarely accomplish their stated goals.

Why should I trust your soft approach to UX? If I'm paying you 70,000 a year, that means you should be providing more than 70,000 a year worth of value - Otherwise theres not really much point in hiring you. Can any UX designer, even in principle, provide more than modest value for sites whose users don't number into the 10s of millions? Keep in mind that its not the difference between no design and a good design when you hire a UX designer, Its the difference between a design generated by someone who isn't a UX professional (but probably is willing to read up on the elements of successful design) and a UX professional who.... possesses no real qualifications or mechanism to distinguish him from the non-UX professional save his assertion that he "has an eye for design". You could hire a High school graduate with an interest in technology, offer to pay him 25k/yr to sit in a comfy chair and write out jquery + html and be absolutely stoked about it, how much more of a value proposition do you get out of a "UX designer"?

I want to clarify this isn't a dig against people who truly provide value and make a difference for users - Theres some UX & UI people out there who are changing the face of their businesses by the work of their own hands and their untamable passion for the human enterprise. But those people would have likely kicked ass anyway.

So I suppose lastly, I'd be distrustful as a rule of most people who claim to generate value through soft, rather than hard means. Historically you would not be unwise to bet on the success of Mathematics and the failure of subjective analysis in virtually every field ranging from analyzing human emotions to machine translation, even fields traditionally decried for being approached mathematically (Because surely a human can only understand what makes up being human?) have been absolutely revolutionized by using an approach that has been working for the past 10k years of human history - Application of cold logic and lots and lots of hard work.

So whats someone who isn't a "science person" to do in an era that increasingly marginalizes those who cannot do hard mental labor? Well you do the only thing you can do with nothing but time on your hands - You market yourself.

[P.S - If you want UX/UI people who aren't full of their own shit, a truly excellent ex-coworker of mine - Sam Asante @ http://samasante.com/ is currently looking for a job in San Francisco]
Having survived the transitions from pre-1.0 -> 1.0 -> 1.1 -> 1.2 -> 1.3, there's been surprisingly little in the way of breakage, usually just a bit of search and replace.
That's the avenue I came up with as well. I hated running out of hard disk space, and the HD PVR kept overheating and not recording stuff. Of course, I kept the htpc, but moved to netflix and cough.
Amazon (or more accurately, the purchaser) should be paying all sales taxes in the state where the purchaser lives, period. Seems cut and dried to me. If the corner store has to run sales tax, Amazon should too.

I don't see why a "[adjective] business decision in the face of [adjective] and [adjective] legislation" is in any way different from "skirt paying sales tax".
Neither have to pay the tax, it's just a question of who the state can compel to collect the tax on behalf of customers. The real tax evaders here are the customers, who are required to pay a use tax for out of state purchases. Of course, clamping down on this is political suicide so it doesn't happen.

I think the classical argument as to why the brick and mortars have to collect is because they actually see a benefit from the local government in the form of police, fire protection and transportation in a way that Amazon does not (at least not directly).
When I look at Lytro I think of E-Ink and FingerWorks, both companies that (like Lytro) grew out of academia and both of whose technology has been significant (arguably revolutionary) in the last decade.
minix was not free for many years. that may also have affected its popularity.
In substance, that's a bad analogy. If you order something from WalMart.com, you have to pay sales tax for your jurisdiction, even though it's not a physical cashier in your jurisdiction ringing it up. It ends up giving Amazon an unfair advantage, just by virtue of the mere fact that it doesn't have physical retail locations in the states it sells stuff to.
Or more specifically, blame the government we get because of the way we finance and run political campaigns.
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I love your use of pre-selecting quotatious words and offering the "tweet this" link. That's a clever idea and I'm surprised it's not more widely used.
I really doubt they will for two reasons:

- free is just not part of Apple's DNA, and

- people are proving all day every day that they will pay for Apple stuff

It makes no sense to give the phones away for free when there's a great chance that person will just pony up the cash to buy one.
His criticism of Buzz didn't have anything to do with unsolicited email, but rather with the fact that Google integrated it into its gmail UI.
I love the internet for little things like this. The author proposes a way to achieve the page turn-effect in the Square app, and the one of the actual Square devs sees it and responds directly to explain how it was _really_ done :-) The internet... connecting people for nearly 40 years.
Google is an advertising firm.

Admittedly, not as annoying as all the rest, but still, their business is advertising.
Catalog companies didn't threaten to make a significant % of all sales into postal sales, the internet does.

I am not so sure of that. Particularly in rural states, companies like Sears-Roebuck were the prime source of all sorts of amenities of basic life, from phonographs to sewing machines. Sure, it took longer, but the prices were a lot better than general stores. And the selection was amazing. You could buy anything up to and including a new house! (Some assembly required.)
are you sure that's a negative growth rate, or a declining growth rate? i'm pretty sure their net growth rate is still positive, even if it's slowing down.
Interesting - signed up, created a few overlaps, will see what happens.

Apologies if I'm blind but I couldn't see an easy way to see who matched overlaps? Could be useful to do a list of users according to match rates, or to find those who match a certain profile.

Also, might there be some value to doing negative matches as well as positive?
cough Plan 9[1] cough

[1] http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/names
We're working on it! Our current plan is to get new cities up every week or two. We perform a lot of curation and research on top of raw data sources to get the cities in. Any places you'd like to see in particular?
It really misses the point in proposing a way to formalize non-hierarchical power. Hierarchy is the form of formalized power that is easiest to understand and the most efficient to work with, especially for technical people who have other things on their minds besides politics.

The power of influence and respect can't really be formalized anyway. If people think technical excellence and the company's technical success are important to their personal success, then the best technical people will wield power through their ability to inform and advise. If your best technical people have less power in the organization than they ought to, it's because other employees intuit, probably correctly, that technical quality has nothing to do with their personal success.
Stole the idea from Hiten! The man's got the gift.
Don't underestimate the biggest advantage of going to college - people you will meet.

Other than that - I agree. If you seek knowledge - just pull your finger out. College won't do it for you.
I don't think XNU is a microkernel in any real sense. Certainly not in the sense that the Minix kernel is or was.

The filesystem, device drivers, IPC, network stack, etc is all in kernel space. It's true that it's built around the Mach microkernel, but like most systems that built around it, Mach is just a core layer in the kernel onion, rather than a microkernel in and of itself with the other major components implemented as user-space servers.
This is amusing given the topic at hand, and what the Plan 9 people thought of Tanenbaum:

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/andy_tanenbaum
Hopefully John Resig (now working at Khan Academy) will help with that :-)
An issue that appears to be overlooked is that the US is much less densely populated and has a much higher overall population and land area to cover. I favor the way many European countries are able to handle things like this (and healthcare, and transportation, etc) but the US is hardly similar to any of those countries. We're operating at a completely different scale here. Not to mention political and cultural differences and issues of states' rights versus the federal government's rights.
Yes that's what it means.
Gonna answer this one myself: Seems http://www.sqlobject.org/ might be a good alternative.
If you live in CA and buy books from Amazon, Amazon does not collect sales tax. You are still required by law to pay it. The onus is now on you to calculate the amount and include it when you file your income taxes.
Yeah, sure. Expecting a third-party to maintain an installer is not a recipe for success. A few projects try to do that and provide some sort of group policy support -- but they're trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. It just doesn't work well.

Security updates are a bigger deal. Auto-update doesn't cut it with large networks with constrained bandwidth or where users don't have admin rights. When you use sane installers, that problem magically disappears.

My previous employer was willing to invest some $ to give back to Mozilla for just this purpose, but was unable to contact anyone at Moz who gave a crap.

My current employer gave up -- we automatically uninstall Firefox as it appears. Our primary browser is now Chrome -- 80% of intranet hits are Chrome today. Chrome addresses most of these issues, and my users are happy. (Except for the users of some Oracle app that uses IE6)

The Mozilla people are fat and happy because of the ad deal that they have with Google. When Google decides that they don't need Firefox anymore, the Moz folks will probably wish they hadn't given a virtual finger to all IT folks.
Wow, I don't know how I missed that story. Pretty entertaining stuff, he should have stuck that in his corporate bio. I still wonder why people chose to make a Facebook film when the people that started Myspace seem so much more interesting.
I have no idea where I read Russian. My bad. :\
I honestly don't get why these people lionize the idea of creating good products sold for money and vilify the idea of creating good ads sold for money

Here are some potential reasons, which I do not necessarily personally endorse:

A good faith purchase of a product or service is a transparent and mutually beneficial arrangement. Ideally, each party acquires something more valuable to them than what they gave up and there is no deception necessary.

Throw advertising in the deal and it becomes more of a competition. Now you have three or more parties involved and none of them have an explicit agreement on everything they are giving and receiving. The value flowing from consumer to producer to advertiser is left ambiguous.

Anyone who has experience with contracts knows that ambiguity = conflict.

Also, it could be considered inefficient, in a macro-economic sense, to spend resources just to convince people to buy other things.

And finally, we've all seen what happens when advertising goes horribly wrong: spam.
That is really interesting thinking! Take a look at how everybody thinks about facebook selling some user data or google following you everywhere you are and everything you do. This post opens up a totally new argument for why this companys should not have so much power over your privacy. Maybe they are really good companies, really never doing anything evil.

But maybe someday they get sold and actually nobody knows what happens then. There is probably no variable for moral and ethics in the function of selling your company and the data you acquired over your users. It's like opening a completely new dimension to think about the problem of privacy, at least to me. Thanks for sharing!
bit late on the response but it's a different situation. Pleading the fifth isn't the same as not knowing or forgetting something. Murderers don't bury bodies then when caught say that they know where it's buried but aren't telling. Even if this was the case and they gave the defendant immunity for knowing where the body is, once they found the body they could use the body to try and find evidence to link the defendant to the murder. It's just like saying "ok well just because you know where the body is, it doesn't mean you murdered the person".
The bill is admittedly stupid in its targeting of the affiliates.

But Amazon would qualify as a CA retailer irrespective of the affiliates, according to the actual bill:

http://www.aroundthecapitol.com/billtrack/text.html?bvid=201...

""Retailer engaged in business in this state" specifically includes, but is not limited to, any of the following:
(1) Any retailer maintaining, occupying, or using, permanently or temporarily, directly or indirectly, or through a subsidiary, or agent, by whatever name called, an office, place of distribution, sales or sample room or place, warehouse or storage place, or other place of business. "
Why is this down-voted? I literally worked on this idea for the entire summer. People I had talked to sent me links to this and asked if it was mine. I'm in no way insinuating that this guy stole it but you can probably understand why this feels a little spooky.
Good work Microsoft for taking things seriously.
Tangential, but Translation Party doesn't work for me in the newest (stable) Firefox and Chrome.
Uh, what was GMail then?

When it first came out, the chosen few got invites, and they invited friends. Rinse, repeat.
Given that Khan is hosted entirely on App Engine, I wouldn't count on a Node.js-specific tutorial series starting any time soon, but JavaScript in general is possible.
Shortmail — a new kind of mail
Because as you say, it's actually the purchaser who needs to pay the sales tax, legally. Not Amazon.
Banishing the Wantrapreneur
TWEAK: Larger Active Tab in Firefox
Personally, I love how confrontational he is. You don't see very many people who are that passionately practical. It's oddly inspiring...
Those are pretty good examples but it basically means that there is no reason to get excited about this now since it is many years away from making any kind of impact.
Microkernels and Linux style kernels solve different problems. If reliability is your concern, then Microkernels are the way to go because a buggy driver (which will exist no matter how careful you are) can't take down your entire system. For desktop operating systems, where the user really is fine with pushing the reset button when something goes wrong, it is not worth the development effort to write a microkernel.

In the end, the answer is always to pick the right tool for the job. Comparing Minix and Linux is about as meaningful as comparing a phillips screwdriver with a flathead. They're used for different purposes.
Browsers List - how many did you try?
1 - Yes. You can share to specific circles, specific people, OR "Public" to everyone.

2 - Sort of. Through the "Huddle" functionality on the mobile client, you can do real-time group chats. But that might not be what you're referring to.
Before you put time in learning Photoshop maybe you can try Adobe Fireworks first, which is Adobes "web designer" product. It's much more intuitive than Photoshop, which I never managed to get around with, no layer stuff etc. Just draw, paint and put your objects on the canvas, it manages the layers automagically. Fireworks combines vector and bitmap graphics, you can open and save PSD files and for web design purposes I did not miss anything yet. Also it's much cheaper (around 300 USD?). I guess you can start playing with it with no tutorial, but of course there are resources like http://www.fireworkszone.com/ or http://www.entheosweb.com/fireworks/default.asp. And they regularly post resources on their Facebook channel https://www.facebook.com/AdobeFireworks
Every time I order from Amazon the delivery starts in CA almost the same day. Perhaps there's some legal entity funny-business going on to make all of its CA fulfillment not count as such, but what else would you call the place that ships me the package?
There's also an excellent library for wiring components client or server-side in javascript :
http://neyric.github.com/wireit/
A perverse incentive of the current situation is that Amazon is prevented from having distribution warehouses in California even though that is where much of their stuff is shipped. How many jobs are we losing now and how much extra CO2 is getting spewed into the air because of this nonsensical tax exemption?
I have no idea why you were downvoted. If the dudes running walmart.com can write code to figure out the appropriate sales tax for each item, the dudes at amazon.com should be able to as well.
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wach cars 2 move online trailer. I think the first movie Cars is the weakest Pixar film 12 is pumped in the last 16 years. I liked the movi
As well as, WorldPay there's also BrainTree - http://www.braintreepayments.com which are worth looking at as well
Right, I was trying to recreate the flow of watching the first few minutes of each video.
Maybe NYC gangs can start using Foursquare instead of guns to settle their turf wars. :)
There have been Java OSes too, with the idea that verifiable bytecode does away with the need for "expensive" memory protection etc. Running everything in one memory space is error-prone, but it's the default way of the monolithic kernel. Having services delegated out to processes with separate memory spaces is architecturally more stable; a single bug in an obscure driver in a less actively maintained corner of the kernel shouldn't lead to a system-wide vulnerability. The approach I mention preserves the ability to keep things separate (with appropriate controls and verification at the boundary); the Singularity / Java OS approach seems rather different.

Snoracle says JavaOS itself is obsolete, FWIW.
How many small sites that can't afford a single accountant are running affiliate programs?
The real tax evaders here are the customers, who are required to pay a use tax for out of state purchases. Of course, clamping down on this is political suicide so it doesn't happen.

Actually North Carolina tried to do exactly that. They did a tax audit of Amazon, and tried to get Amazon to turn over records as a part of that which would let them go after state residents for owed sales tax. The case went to court and was settled last February in Amazon's favor. Amazon wound up giving North Carolina detailed records of every item shipped to a North Carolina address, but with all personal identifying information stripped so that North Carolina could not figure out who had purchased what.
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Satisfying the cat and user centered design
Wish it went into more detail on the "you can be fired from your own company" point, that's such a scary proposition.
Very nice!

It'd be cool if you could select a bunch of "Me too" options when you first sign up without it reloading the right sidebar. On Chrome at least, it slows down, gets choppy, and makes it hard to click on other options & scroll until its fully loaded.

Once you've made some initial overlaps, you should be fine. Starting off it just is a bit tricky.

Besides this, it's a cool idea. Good luck!
The best way to discover users now is to browse overlaps. Sorting user lists by match rates is temporarily disabled until I ensure the back-end is ready to handle the load (this is the first major public posting of the site).

Filtering, by both match rates and location, will obviously be a high priority as the # of users increases.
I don't mind paying taxes on my earnings from the affiliate program. It's not like the government would expect me to pay taxes on the cost of the goods sold. It's the amount made from the affiliate program.

Amazon is a significant source of income for me in California, and I was thinking of creating a California LLC this year anyway to shield from lawsuits. I'm now going to seriously think about doing it in Delaware instead.

Any advice?
Google's job is to sell ads to advertisers. Making the ads valuable to you is one strategy to achieve this, but not the only one.
I think, the primary reason to be mad about this is that the law in no way helps any one. It even seems like it will end up being a law that has negative effects.

California affiliates will be cut-off by Amazon. So the affiliates either move their business out of state or they stop their business entirely. In either case, the state loses out on taxes that it currently gets from these affiliates. People buying from Amazon will continue buying from Amazon. So the local and big-box retailers do not really benefit. It is only the small subset of people who don't know about certain Amazon products and who might have come to know about them because of the various sites or blogs based on using Amazon affiliate links will now not know about these and contribute to buying from Amazon.

So it makes sense to be mad that our lawmakers are spending time and effort on a useless law during a time of budget crisis.
You say it's "cut and dried" at the same time that you are clearly reaching beyond what the laws say. It is not cut and dried as to what one state may make a resident of a completely different state do. Amazon probably is correct, and forcing Amazon to collect sales tax for your state probably is an overreach.

It should be pointed out, since so many people forget this in this discussion, that as a resident of a state you are frequently required to pay the sales tax to the state directly in the form of a "use tax". This isn't about consumers owing sales tax, technically the states have already made that happen. It isn't about Amazon "not paying" this tax, because it is the consumer's responsibility at that point. It is about one state forcing an entity not in its jurisdiction to do something for the convenience (and little more) of that state. Amazon's got a pretty strong case here; any principle that makes this compulsion legal is likely to have numerous and manifold "unanticipated results" beyond merely getting Amazon to collect tax.
I doubt if Amazon competitors collect sales tax that their prices will remain competitive with Amazon.
Correct, although the author is a her.
Good to know, I'll think about how to handle this. (The problem of not testing on other people's machines!)
What would prevent one from changing to some fake address if you get paid in bank transfers anyway? Where could this go wrong?
Well the only one thing I do know that's a huge pain about having a California LLC is the $800 minimum tax. It sounds like you might be making enough that you owe more than that though.
Nice text of the actual law with revisions marked-up:

http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/11-12/bill/asm/ab_0001-0050/abx1_2...

[edited to note that revisions are highlighted]
Failed for CPython or failed for PyPy? I'm just going on the claim that PyPy is in a position to automatically add STM, per that blog post. If in fact it can't automatically add locks, it isn't going to be automatically adding STM either and this is all a moot discussion.