skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The seller needs to trust the buyer will send whatever is sold. The buyer needs to trust the seller to pay.

ITYM "The buyer needs to trust the seller to send whatever is bought." etc.
Because it's 1000 times slower and doesn't have a wealth of libraries available to it, and it isn't finished, and it's not 100% stable.
> or the whole menu bar disappearing when you use an extension in its own window

Could someone explain to me the correct way for a developer to handle this?

I've been aware of this problem for a while, and I've newly come to own a Mac, so I've looked into it more and looked at what other apps are doing. There doesn't seem to be a correct solution.

I looked at how Safari handles the Web Inspector, and it just adds a new, dedicated Debug menu to the menu bar. This is a no-go in my case.

Suppose you're developer faced with a problem similar to the Firefox–extension problem. You have something like an app-within-an-app, or maybe A and B are actually even more closely tied together than that, but independent enough that on any other platform it would be a no-brainer: each one gets its own menu. What do you do for OS X?

You can't re-use A's menu items in B, because A's items—in, say, the Edit menu—don't serve B. You can't just augment A's menu set to include B's menus and items, because B's menus and items are so numerous and specific to B and vice versa, that there's just so much clutter from the other's menus and items.
The intro is okay, but it did not help Perl community at all. Besides, the article itself has some poor code. For example, if one wants returning nothing, return "" is a very bad idea, since to catch it in as array would make an one-element array which is true.
> I am talking about the buyers ability to get their needs met

so a 'genuine need' being met is a conversion, right? isn't that what google's algorithms and advertisers optimize for?

i think in your framework of evaluation, that makes better advertisement inherently more moral, and thus, working for a company that's trying to increase conversions an inherently moral task.
I'd like to think that AirBnB is founded by decent people that wanted to make money making something as complicated and common as house renting an easy to do thing for many people. I'd like to think that EJ will get some financial help. I'd also like to think that AirBnB did a good job admitting their wrongdoings and responding to the situation at hand. Years of experience have told me I'd like to think of a fantasy world :).

That said I really do hope it works out, but it's to soon to tell how this will all turn out. For now I'm content with the fact that they are trying to make things right.
Man! I wish they would open source the code to JustSpotted. I'd love to fill the void they left behind, but preferably without starting from scratch...
Hey, I could be wrong. But every day that goes by without announcing the Wimdu Guarantee is distance between them.
Judge: Email in Oracle-Google Case Will Remain Public
When I purchase the gift card, presumably I'm purchasing via PayPal. The recipient then receives the money via PayPal.

So like - I could just give my friend some money via PayPal and say "hey dude, have a night out on me".
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That is correct. If the safest policy is to avoid touching patents altogether and people come up with similar solutions to problems without having any information whatsoever about a related patent it begs the question: what knowledge did the patent bring to the world?
You can also go into the debug shell (which is REPL) by giving it some valid statement: Here is an example:

shell> perl -de 1

This will take you into the perl debug shell (after evaluating the string "1" which is true).
They DO have UX guidelines, but hardly anyone reads and respects them. I have hard time arguing with my managers at work, who want to make our software's UI "prettier" by putting on the skin which 1) out of place on supported Windows versions, 2) ugly.
Going to the press looks like an effective way to get results.
It’s a beta, open only for developers. Patience.
And still many people will refuse to use phpBB or have anything to do with it because of its checkered past.
You could say the same things about any kind of property. Did we ever have a formal, democratic vote on land ownership?

As more and more people transition to work producing only digital information, do you really think that protections for that work are going to become less popular?
maybe the reason is that android users just don't use flickr. i mean, who still uses flickr?
> "it didn’t reflect my true feelings"

Yeah, that phrase jumped out at me too. Both because it implies not telling the truth as well as still passing the buck (were they someone else's words?). And it's too bad because otherwise the post is good.

And I'd have to agree with commentary regarding the photo. It just doesn't strike the right tone of empathy and humbleness. I'm sure it's hard to be humble when you've created a rocket ship but it's a great attribute in these situations.
Do programmers lose interest as they age?
That link works for me (or rather, dies and gives an error). By way of giving multiple data points.
This is surprising, do you have a link? Because the Minnesota phenomenon is interesting. I was able to find this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_based_in_Minn...

E.g., Norwest Bank (which bought Wells-Fargo), Target, and some others.
I think I understand her sentiment.

With the adult site I've been working on for a client, we've put things like securing video downloads and preventing password sharing LAST (in fact, we haven't even implemented them yet), in favor of putting all of our energy into making the site and content as excellent as possible.

Our thought is that with the site just starting out, piracy and password sharing probably help a lot more than they hurt right now. We've even posted a good number of the scenes up on private torrent sites that have active discussion forums. Eventually we'll secure the downloads (no DRM, though) and prevent password sharing, but only once we can say that we're by far the best provider of our content.
It also sounds like he derives a lot of revenue from a healthy live following. Musicians that aren't as performance-oriented are probably less sanguine about this.
It's always the first thing I do but unfortunately defaults matter.
It would be nice to be able to use an "internet-wide" reputation on sites like Airbnb, instead of recreating it on each site.

If I can easily prove to Airbnb things like, "this is my identity on couchsurfing, that is my identity on ebay, this is my identity on [wherever]". Airbnb could provide the service of verifying those claims and presenting a summary to the seller.
Avro is interesting but it is VERY complex. The schema negotiation is something I never felt comfortable with in an RPC context. You want something simple, and therefore bug free. This is why we like HTTP and JSON.

My vote goes for Thrift, but there are some features of protobuf which are interesting, notably the APIs for dealing with messages you dont know everything about, and ways to preserve unknown fields when you copy messages from A->B, this is in part how dapper works.
Entities like China that are less than assiduous in respecting patents are going to benefit enormously from the hobbling effect of U.S. patent litigation. I don't think it's a complete counterbalance to the lack of free information flow which generates opportunity for corruption, but we really shouldn't do this to ourselves.
That's some heavy Cryptonomicon memories right there.
3D Printing and The Replicator Economy
Mortgage your house, then bootstrap from zero to $50m in 7 years
The vast majority of users don't need it. If they want to make it native, simply bundle it with a dev version. As useful as firebug is, more FF users would probably benefit from a button that converts a page from English to Spanish (I'm aware Chrome already does this). I think they should just put out the most focussed product possible, and allow their healthy dev community to add any functionality missing.

That said, "packages" might be a good idea. The "paranoid package" could bundle adblock, noscript, trackmenot, and foxyproxy. The "developer package" could bundle firebug and anything else that might be useful. Offering binaries with these packages pre-installed from a visible link on the main download page might not be a bad idea.
Ah, that wasn't clear - it just let me log in. Maybe I should have separate Apple IDs for my personal stuff vs. my development stuff...
Seemed like a decent post, but felt it was missing the why.

Still, looks like you are already ahead of the curve, and you've got some great things in the works.
Also see author's comment above: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2832348
Very enthusiastic.
One suggestion: support online tutoring.
There's more to tutoring than finding someone in your zip code. I tutor organic chemistry and haven't met a single person in person. Skype tutoring is just ridiculously convenient for all parties concerned. When people flake out - because they do, a lot - at least I haven't left my office.
A little late, but sure! I'm up for meeting at Thirsty Bear. They have a sour cherry wheat on cask that should be good. Shoot me an email at ian.dunbarhall@gmail.com if you are still interested.
I am not sure it's all there but it's definitely funny.

http://stalkerbot.com/#/pg
Love the concept of tutorspree and the idea of what it could mean for a some what ignored space. Excited to see what you guys come up with over the next few months!
Almost identical to Giftly including the chutes and ladders diagram: http://begiftly.com/what-is-giftly
He derives a lot of his revenue from kids on E bugging out to his laser show. Good bass music if you're into that.
That's interesting that people now are so amazed with the fact that to start a product you don't really need "angels and VCs lined up". Personally I am coming from East-european shareware background. Back in '90s and '00s nobody would even think about outside capital - people would just start their product and then either grow it into a viable company or bury it, if it doesn't work. I have a feeling that now people of the same age can't even imaging starting anything without financing. Sad...
It's not going to happen because that would involve cutting a good chunk away from the side of the content area, standing in the way of pages' Manifest Destiny of extending from the left side of the screen to the right.

Having pages like that is a shitty way to browse; people who do it are doing themselves a disservice by reading lines at that width, and screens are wider than ever, but people love full screen windows.
yeah, as my down-voted comment mention, I figure the HN folks would get what the author meant (once again, good article), but it might give the false impression to someone less familiar with the concept. They might take the sentence as suppling all the energy, and someone picking up the article might use those sentences as a basis for a headline (catchy = headline grab).
General as in "shared by everyone" or as in "shared among geeks/nerds/people that are into development"?

Also interesting is their education, it's making it obvious that we are moving away from universities (although the sample isn't in any way big enough we can get the hint, I guess)
Actually I thought "that is too much", given that electricity is consumed inefficiently in the developed world by individuals, while Google has the ability to do massive optimization.
AWS launches 2011 start-up challenge
Burned out on programming?
I just saw this. How awesome! :)

I can't wait to see what other applications they use this for.
bug/issue reporting is a real pain, and possibly a good business opportunity for someone to fix. But as with many problems, it requires a network effect to have a lasting impact - you'll have a chicken/egg problem from day 1.
Point taken. For the record, I'm a big fan of AirBNB and have used it multiple times.
Do you realize the stupidity of what you just said? First you said "MA has the worst drivers in the country". And then literally 14 words later you say "I blame the roads".

What is it? Bad driver, or bad driving conditions?
so journalism doesn't serve society because its "about serving ads"?
Like Jonathan Coulton?

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/14/136279162/an-inter...

I'd argue the opportunities for digital distribution far outweigh the risky and extremely limited opportunities of traditional physical media. The smaller artist has a major lack of publicity muscle. Piracy can provide just that; on a potential scale almost completely inaccessible to unknown artists.

I work for a small record label, I understand the problem very well.
Ask HN:  What happened to logins?
I have always signed into HN using my Google account via ClickPass. Suddenly, when I try to login it wants me to either sign up again or already have an HN account...yet somehow, the page text mentions "Merging" my OpenID account, which makes me thing this is an attempt to connect my old account with a new one.

Does anyone know why this happened and how I get my account back?
Tell HN: Many thanks.
I want to sincerely thank every single person who either replied to my previous posting (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2608804) or sent me an email. In particular, to those who sent me email, I promise I will reply to you soon, even if it's just to say a personal thanks. Because of the volume of mail I've received and my spotty internet access, it might be a few days before I get to everyone, but if you sent me email, I will reply as thoughtfully as possible within the next several days.

As of right now, well, I need to decide exactly what I'm going to do. I'm definitely still looking for other employment in my area, but I don't think the job market for secretaries, cashiers, and janitors with Masters degrees is very good right now, unfortunately. :/

I'll be monitoring my first post for signs of activity until at least the end of the week. If anyone has anything else they'd like to suggest, please also feel free to email desperate_hacker@ymail.com.

As for this account, I anticipate this being my final posting, except for a possible followup post after I get employed in which I acknowledge the power of a group of semi-anonymous good folks on the internet.

Thanks for reading.
I think this is a bit of a pessamistic view of the companies in questions. I mean sure we can all agree that their revenue model at the end of the day is ALL about advertising, and sure companies only care about making money right? So I can see where you care coming from and why, but there are a lot of engineers at those places who could care less about serving up a single ad.

Google, Facebokk, Twitter, and anyone else who wants to make a dime off of advertising has 1 goal that should always be higher on their priority list than serving up ads...getting more users and keeping them happy. Without the massive scale of users that these companies have, who would care how many ads they are serving.

I know what I am saying is all very obvious, but I think there are far more people inside those companies that are aiming to solve and inovate on problems within the user space rather than just the ad space.... just IMHO.
Making grad school far less accessible in exchange for moderate increases for undergrads sounds like a bit of a mixed message.

Also, call me cynical, but I can't help but think that this is a game of three-card Monte. What's in their other hand?
"An unarmed man being by definition a non-combatant."

So an unarmed enemy messenger carrying orders or a scout acting as a lookout is off limits? A radio operator calling in mortar strikes? You can be a combatant without holding a gun.

You imply classism in that we only buy uniforms so our peasants will fight. I'm curious what the annual salary of a E-1 is versus a suicide bomber? Is there a Jihadist GI bill I'm unaware of? The biggest rich/poor divide I see isn't on our end.

You also imply that we want opposing forces to wear uniforms only because it gives us an advantage. That protecting civilians is just a cover story. If that's the case why send soldiers to Afghanistan at all? If civilians don't matter to us then a single trident sub could handle the whole war for us.

"The whole protecting civilians argument doesn't hold water anyway, the ratio of civilian-military casualties keeps going up in the modern era."

"They fight like guerillas, hiding among civilians, which multiplies their force and we go on to complain how it's illegal according to Western customs"

So the side that wants to fight with uniforms are complainers that kill civilians, and the side that hides behind civilians are just fighting fairly according to their customs? What?
Integration with picasa is so easy with android that i wouldn't be surprised if many people just defaulted to that.
He posted it on his blog, http://blog.stephenhorlander.com/2011/08/desktop-backgrounds...
San Francisco, CA - Causes

http://www.causes.com/join_us ! We're a small engineering team trying to save the world! with Ruby. You get a lot of freedom to work on what YOU think is the most important thing you can do for the company. If that means contributing or starting your own open source project, so be it (http://github.com/causes/ has grown by three new projects in the last month alone)

You can apply through the web site or by contacting me, adam<at>causes.com
Cassandra recently stripped out Avro support.
Realistically what happens is that you apply a performance patch that delays the purchase of the next thousand servers.
The Big Idea: The Age of Hyperspecialization
Javascript Performance Boosting Tips from Nicholas Zakas
Interesting ... I received an email today that my application was "approved". It was rejected before because I just couldn't be bothers to go through all the steps and fill out the information.

Looking forward to checking out the site.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=topic+view works very well on me.
The first challenge was easy in Python, but I have no idea how I'd write in Haskell. Anyone?
Wildebeest Migration
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> Protobuf's python performance was abysmal — over 10x worse than Thrift.

This is still true of the official implementation from Google, which is pure Python. That's why I wrote the Python half of lwpb [1], and why the Greplin guys wrote fast-python-pb [2]. Both are about 10x faster than the Google Python implementation, so I'd guess on par with Thrift now.

[1] https://github.com/acg/lwpb

[2] https://github.com/Greplin/fast-python-pb/tree/master/benchm...
Spending $20 at themeforest.net is the best investment you could make. Its an interesting concept, but it will be hard for anyone to get past the UI.
Love the idea, it' s a really nice tool!
For me just now:

Ref A: 1868CAC6D8EA4D63B186C4E1C09E8822 Ref B: 22A00154B361421B403038C5A5D4A80F Ref C: Mon Aug 01 17:20:45 2011 PST

Edit: this is under Chrome incognito mode as others have mentioned
Pace of VC investing by subsector
I don't understand. Honest question. Why am I modden down? I'm not an American nor am I a Christian. Is it just because I understand their point of view even though I don't agree?
FWIW, I am a Muslim, born by a Protestant.
How much battery power is lost to heat?

Imagine a CPU which integrated this technology into the package so that it could re-capture a portion of its generated heat as power. Current designs could be made more efficient, and lower battery usage.
Like GitHub?

https://github.com/about under the voice "VC Funding"
I'm pretty sure more than .2% of Chrome users use Windows.
This post is repetitive, but you'll see this before email, and it might help others... As mentioned in the previous thread, on the first of every month, there are two important threads for those seeking either employment or employees.

"Who's Hiring (Aug 2011)"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831646

(NOTE: Three companies (at present) are listed in Michigan)

"Freelancer/Seeking Freelancer (Aug 2011)"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2831651
As long as you had 0 liability for taxes - which would be the case if you had no payroll, there should be no penalties, even if they are filed late. AFAIK.
"Your browser is not supported. To use iCloud, we recommend using the latest version of Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer."

Also, there's a cute picture of a sad-face cloud. lol.

I'm using Firefox 3.6.19, since FF4 wasn't working well on my mac when I tried it.
Not everyone with an Apple ID can log in, <strike>only paying developers.</strike> who knows which mysterious rules Apple uses to let people in.

Here are some screenshots:

http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/01/icloud-com-opens-up-for-develo...

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/01/apple-icloud-dot-com-web-ap...

All three apps (Mail, Contacts, Calendar) are very feature rich, responsive and quite shiny. At least Calendar uses local storage (but will ask you before it does). All three apps took no more than five seconds or so to load for the first time, subsequent loads were much, much faster. iCloud saves state, wherever you are when you close the window will be where you are when you go back to iCloud.

I’m not a fan of the re-implemented scrollbars (Mail and Calendar even use pre-Lion and pre-iOS scrollbars). Also, composing a new message opens up a new window which seems very weird.

You should definitely go visit iCloud.com with deactivated Javascript or cookies.
You think I was born yesterday? Give me an actual HN username!
Like bazillion other sites.
I don't see how I've equated a conversion to a genuine need being met. That would imply that nobody ever buys anything that isn't suited to their needs.

I guess I'm falling for trolls here.
$50K is not even close to the right number.
Running Firefox 3.6 at work, unsupported. Chrome omitted from their suggested browsers ("latest version of Safari, Firefox, or Internet Explorer").

Did I mention the adorable frowny cloud:
https://www.icloud.com/static_pages/unsupported_browser/en-u...
Perhaps someone can use Rosetta code as a starting point (their content is GNU licensed) and build a site that does what you are suggesting - where it only shows you the features for the languages you want to learn, based on the ones you know.
There are serious fifteen year old reported errors in java.util.Random which have never been fixed and have finally been declared WONTFIX. Ten years ago I reported that ArrayList's get(), set(), and add() methods were non-inlineable (!) and could be trivially repaired with a single line of code: this was never fixed until recent versions of HotSpot which finally obviated the issue.

We're talking core classes here. So I don't have a lot of faith in the bug reporting process.
This article provides a nice discussion on "protocol buffer misfeatures"

http://blog.golang.org/2011/03/gobs-of-data.html
You have really been shutting down discussion on this issue. I don't know you from Adam but I think you need to step back a little and let people discuss all angles, I honestly think you're creating a little bit of a straw man here. I think it's reasonable to debate that yes, maybe this insurance will exclude a lot of people, and if so what does that mean for AirBnB's business model?
It's not "tough economic times" for big businesses right now. They are turning in record profits.