skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Since there was so much interest about this yesterday, I thought this analysis might be a better insight than all the press release style stuff floating around. I missed this during my skimming of the article:

"The patient's kidneys were, in fact, having a hard time keeping up with the amount of cellular debris that they were being asked to sweep out of the blood stream; he lost over a kilo of cancerous cells."
If the buyer needs to be aware, then so does Paypal - and they take steps accordingly. I feel sorry for anyone whose account has been frozen by Paypal, but if they didn't take steps to manage their risks, they would experience more fraud. And if they experienced more fraud, they would pass those costs along to everyone.
I can't help but feel that this just isn't the right way to go about helping the less fortunate. It's just too underhanded.

Just build something similar that doesn't involve taking advantage of J's Card. Man up.
Picasa is all integrated with the other Google services (which I'm a heavy user of), but in the case of Picasa it results in a messy UX for me.

Eg. I just went to picasaweb.google.com to check out whether it's $5/mo or $5/year, and what is shows me is a bunch of pictures from my G+ stream, but the whole UX is confusing. It doesn't even have a front page (like flickr.com). Where do I find pricing?

It seems to me that Flickr is better at the whole "do one thing and do it well" paradigm and it results in a much smoother UX compared to the integrated G+ mess.

EDIT: There's a tiny "Upgrade your storage" link at the bottom, pricing is $5/yr for 20GB.
"It's perfectly reasonable for Paypal to decide their own business model."

The same could be said for just about every other business that fails.

And I don't believe that is reasonable to freeze transactions of business based solely on some sort of suspicion of guilt, then after it has been resolved that they are indeed innocent, continue to hold their money for months after the fact.

The horror stories of paypay have been floating around for some years, this story is nothing new.
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The arguments regarding desktop computing environment (display, ergonomic keyboard, mouse) are irrelevant. Any one of those things that is a necessary expense for a desktop could just as easily be used to transform your laptop's computing experience to a more traditional 'desktop' one.

The arguments regarding cost and horsepower are more compelling, and even though the gap is closing, I doubt that a laptop will ever outperform a desktop of comparable costs. It's just cheaper to manufacture components that are bigger and less heat-sensitive.
Prosper, a framework for Prolog web applications
Explaining version control systems to five year olds
You should probably be very careful about using the word guarantee in your website's text. IANAL, but you may find that you could get sued by someone who is taking that as a informal contract.
Bryan is right. Right now we support selectively syncing independent shares. So if you had a "music" library, and a "workgroup" library, you could sync either the music library, or the workgroup library, or both (or neither), but that's as fine granularity as we allow today.
Well, this is true, but doesn't passion come first. I know so many coders who did their engineering in arts or commerce or are chemical engineers.

And from all of them, I have learnt one thing, to never give up what you love the most :)
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It's not like giving a gift. It's making a donation for a specific cause and then having the funds misspent on something different. The publicly accessible debit card was part of the 'social experiment' which seems to result in what we already knew a long time ago. People are happy to abuse the system for what they believe to be the greater good.
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This actually used to be such a common question that we wrote a support article about it :) See http://ae.ro/jnqNyw for more info

(edit: wrong link before, my bad)
Seconding that.

I certainly would have dropped paypal long ago if it were not for our account rep.
I agree, it's all about the contrast. Similarly, letting others recognize your accomplishments without pointing them out gives them ownership over the realization and makes it that much more meaningful.
I'm always looking for feedback on http://www.unscatter.com you can email me at my gmail account bowman.joseph

I'm currently redesigning the javascript implementation, moving it towards YUI3 widgets to make it more maintainable, and am aware I need to eventually optimize delivery altogether (sprites, css/js files, etc etc) so no need to dive into that.

I'm a father of 2 (1 and 3) with a time consuming job myself so pretty impressed you're taking the time to do this for people. My hat off to you :)
Seems inevitable, no?

I get perhaps one meaningful piece of mail a week tops, and nothing that can't wait a week. There are peaks (weddings, Xmas, etc) but very little that justifies the scale of the system. I suspect this is true for a large percent of the population under 60 - at least the urgency part. The trend will continue.

One secondary question - are the fixed costs so big that the system only works with huge volumes?
Or to build up profiles they can match to sell ads against for demographic targeting.
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The screen real estate argument as well as the separate keyboard/trackpad argument never made sense to me for a MacBook Air. Can't you hook it up to a Cinema Display (which has hookups for USB, Thunderbolt, etc)? I also use a wireless keyboard/trackpad with my air, so I still have desktop ergonomics. But I can understand the argument for extendability.
Which one did you get that allows you to hook it up to two external monitors? The hengedock only does one as far as I can tell. I would love to have two external monitors and not have to plug everything in every time I get back from work.
Sadly the only thing i can remember now are all the biblical examples of The Art Of Prolog, but prolog it's anyway something well worth a try (especially if you develop rule engines in other languages).
I don't think we're dealing with a bubble, at least not the bubble we've come to associate with epic disaster. Of course, there is hype aplenty, and instances like the Groupon IPO have shown that startup mania is becoming a bit overzealous, but this zeal very positively affects the business environment. By showing there is a real interest and value in ideas, these incubators are setting a tangible example of how it pays to innovate and come up with unique solutions. Perhaps the reason why startups are outliers in this economy is because its one of the few sectors where innovation isn't being stifled by the old guard, instead, the gatekeepers of industry are setting a trend of investment and mentorship.
15" and 17" MBPs have matte screen options. Or you could spend no more than $10 and buy the screen protector (it's more like $2 if you buy it online though).
:) Would still love to see your implementation though. Ours only covers a subset of the spec so lots of room for improvement...
> I've come to realize that fragmented, disconnected identities on separate websites is a feature. Yes, the dots can be connected by someone with significant resources. But why should I make these connections easy to make, or searchable? Doesn't do anything for me.

I've come to a similar realization, and reacted against G+ in much the same way. Maybe the NSA or ONI can figure out who 'revscat' really is -- and honestly, in my case it wouldn't be that difficult -- but Google already knows more about me than I feel comfortable with. The only way I would consider switching from FB to G+ was if Google completely reversed their 'real name' policy and allowed/encouraged pseudonyms.

The internet has a long, long history of anonymity. I will continue to do what I can to support this.
I think accusing someone of "bordering on tinfoil hat territory" is essentially a personal attack. You claim there are plenty of practical reasons, but you didn't list any. I can think of some, but none that are appropriate for a social network.

Think about it this way- would you exclude Mark Twain from your shelves if you ran a book store? Sure, you could say he's being dishonest by not posting under his real name, but he's part of a long tradition of people doing so, and for good reason, including those who published political pamphlets around the time of the american revolution.

There is also a very long history, continuing right up until the present day in many countries, of persecuting people for their dissenting opinions. Thus the comment you're replying to is not out of line-- it is a primary reason to use a pseudonym. And it is a real threat in countries like North Korea, Iran, etc.

Further, given the public statements from the US Federal Government ranging from branding anyone who has served in the military as a "potential terrorist" and the revelations of programs and software to correlate identities using social networks to "find terrorists", the threat even in the USA is not out of the realm of the reasonable.

In fact, if Google were being forced to engage in domestic spying- spying that might otherwise be thwarted by using an alias that prevents correlation- we are all familiar with the fact that they could be barred from even revealing it, given the recent penchant for secret court orders and "national security letters", and the provisions of the PATRIOT Act.

So, there's a slate of practical reasons-- though quite unsavory- to tie your online identity to your real name.
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Sayre's Law
>> "But guess what: competition sucks. Cooperation is much better.
One of the biggest problems with competition is that it means
that somebody has to lose. For every winner, someone is a loser.
That person is going to be hurting. In the case of open source,
someone has spent (possibly) years of their life working on
something, and now, all of that is gone. That shit stings."

A thoughtful post by Steve, but I don't agree with this quote at all. It's misdirected to think that an idea is worth more just because someone has put a lot of time into it. It's also dangerous to assume that there must one way to do something and that it has to work for everyone.

Many others have said this before me, but it bears repeating: Open source is not a zero-sum game. New ideas and implementations do not come at the expense of existing code. The pieces don't get smaller; the whole pie gets larger.
One of the most versatile ways to have scalability and partition tolerance while also having consistency is having eventual consistency.

And having eventual consistency with MVCC implemented with vector clocks really rocks.

Riak takes Brower's CAP theorem seriously and even lets you configure the values per bucket so that you can get more of C, more of A or more of P.

You don't need to store all the history, just the contentious history. Riak pretty much rocks in the sense that you can add nodes to it and it just works, or take them away and it just works. Just like Dynamo. (Not like Cassandra.)
His site could have failed for a number reasons, such as lack of funding, lack of viral growth (if it was social), or whatever. I think you should be careful not to pick on someone because their startup/project failed. Especially here on HN, where we're supposed to embrace failure.
Hey Bryan,
Your gripes haven't fallen on deaf ears :)
The chatty protocol feedback we've heard a few times, and we're doing our best to optimize it.
The Lion issues we'll investigate ASAP.

As for #3, That's actually a highly requested feature (see http://ae.ro/iUi6OZ), so it's pretty high on our to do list

#4. We've thought about this for a while, not really sure yet how we will implement it though.

#5. Working on that, as well, no ETA yet though :)
That's a valid point. But is pursuing art (or whatsver) admitting to yourself that you value art more than world hunger? After all, that's how you're allocating your resources.

Fwiw, anyone who knows me know I don't have a holier-than-thou attitude (though I took one for this post). This was mostly meant as an edgy/controversial twist to the social experiment: how do peoople react when someone takes the money (which is a public good) and imposes their own morals on it (even if it's for good)?
If you go to something requiring Silverlight from a Linux box, the Microsoft site will redirect you to Moonlight.
Its an excellent book. I am proud to own a copy. Authors have done a good job!

Anyone who want to learn algorithms & data stuctures should get this & read it cover-to-cover. PERIOD
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Yahoo would have shut them down a few years later anyway
Great, you donated $600 to kids who really needed it. Next time you get the desire to do so, I suggest you build your own crowd-sourced donation scheme, or donate your own money. Either way, you won't be leeching off of other peoples' hard work.
Yeah, facebook didn't make a lot of sense
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You know I keep seeing tech types going on about how much they hate PayPal - so why doesn't somebody do a startup to go head to head with them? I realize I'm just a humble designer, but I can tell that even from a usability point of view they're very vulnerable.
Hi there, here's some unsolicited advice from someone who's not much unlike you -- I quit employment about a year and a half ago when I had a fair chunk of cash, and now I'm launching startups for myself.

I've built about 5 projects to "almost completed" status in the last year. And each project has been "re-built" at least twice. It sounds like I'm in a very sad state, no better off than you, but my friend, I have fantastic news! I'm running out of money! There's tons of pressure now! And because of the accumulated pressure I've been feeling in the last 2-3 months, I finally put up one of the projects I'm working on, and after a stint of work today, it should be ready to accept paying customers (even if it's not fully glossy and conversion-tuned yet).

My advice to you? Find ways to put yourself under pressure. If it's not financial strain (like I have no choice in), then make it peer pressure and social pressure; Put up a website for what you're working on, and start talking about it. Post it on your Facebook, to HN, and anywhere else you feel like talking about it. Pray to a god-you-may-not-believe-in that people give you negative feedback, because that's the best motivator. "You can't do it, you're gonna go broke, you're doomed to fail!" is what the little man in my mental coal-room is shouting as he whips the hamster that powers my typing fingers.
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Can someone explain the error correction a bit more? How exactly is it that you're blanking out 1/3 of the code and it still works? Does it matter which bits you disrupt? Couldn't your design, if comprised black and white squares, inadvertently BE readable QR data that screws up your message?
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Eh, I found Jonathan's "Buying yuppies coffee will improve the world!" naivete far more offensive.

I didn't see OP as criticizing frivolity, I saw him more criticizing Jonathan's suggestion that this game was meaningfully altruistic.

Eye of the beholder I guess.
No, he says he started up a second EventBrite listing for the conference.

EventBrite lets you use your own PayPal account. http://www.eventbrite.com/paypal-info

Maybe EventBrite should warn its users about PayPal's policies.
I don't see how they are mentioning a possibility of 'What if'. This article seems a little misleading. Its clear from reading this that the founders did not want to sell themselves to Yahoo. Also, hindsight is always 20/20 :)
The fact that so many people think that Scala is too complicated is empirical evidence that it is, in fact, too complicated, where "too complicated" is defined as "a lot of people find it too complicated". I'm comfortable with that definition.

Gosu has plenty of problems and, admittedly, covariance is a logical hole, but it was an explicit choice: we didn't think the power to weight ratio of the other options were high enough. Daniel Spiewack (Scala expert, very nice guy, and incredibly smart) gave a talk at OSCON on the complexity of the Scala type system:

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/18780

So even a Scala expert is starting to wonder about the wisdom of pursuing the One True And Sound Type System.

At some point, the statically typed guys have to look at the success of dynamically typed languages and wonder just how much static typing matters. We think it matters for tools, mostly, so we picked a type system that isn't sound, but usually does what you want and gets out of your way. That might work for you, it might not: but we are grownups and we've though about it more deeply than this guy apparently thinks we have.
+1 - I could use some advice in this area too ...
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I'm not sure that's the case here. It's not an anonymous recipient, it's Jonathan's stored value card and therefore Jonathan. Jonathan authorized anyone to use his card to buy coffee. He did not authorize anyone to steal his money.

Another way to look at it is as a common fund dedicated to the purpose of buying coffee. Using it for anything else seems like embezzlement.
Groupon?
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That may be your opinion. I suspect in the UK you might well fall foul of the Computer Misuse act:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/section/1
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Why you don't steal from a hacker.
My flat was raided and ransacked during the London riots, but thanks to tracking software I fed intel to the London Metro police until he was apprehended and my laptop returned.
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I think the Flickr UX is pretty good, but I've only been a user for a couple of months. So maybe the problem is that the Flickr UX can't grow with the user/photographer?
Truthfully, I think the problems with Monsanto are more hype than real. They deal with the most important issues in the world, almost - making food available.
It is true that Bitcoin adoption levels don't make it feasible to rely on completely for conference registration, but it makes sense to start offering it as an option so we can gradually grow an alternative to Paypal, who has been pulling these shenanigans for years. It usually takes a day or two to convert Bitcoin to currency so there isn't a big reason not to offer it as a payment option.
Western governments have a long history of shutting down dissenting opinion, infiltrating left-wing groups, and conducting various other undemocratic operations in order to further their own goals. And just yesterday the PM of Great Britain called for government controls over social networks. Google's motives here are questionable given their cozy relationship with US intelligence and law enforcement.

This is hardly "tinfoil hat territory". Rather it is simple history and current events.
Wrong. They just want to harvest your legitimate personal information, which they've promised to advertisers.
This is exactly what I use Live Mesh for. I sync 10s of gigs of photos between remote PCs with it.

The only thing I don't like about Live Mesh is that it's very difficult to tell what it's transferring and how long it's taking. It works, but I wouldn't be able to tell you "it'll be another 20 minutes before it's done".

How does AeroFS stack up here?
There's a nice big "Download Now" button that leads to a "Sign Up for an Invite" page that says "as soon as we can". That button causes the expectation that I would download something immediately so it's disappointing and discourteous when that's not the case.
How is what he's doing not "part of the social experiment?"

Q: What happens if you let everyone contribute to and take from a Starbucks card?
A: We are in the process of finding out, and the answer wasn't what we expected!

Why isn't this just an interesting, unexpected result? Furthermore, condemning this guy is like condemning Lulzsec for exposing security vulnerabilities. Do you think that no one would have figured this out if OP hadn't? He's exposing the vulnerability and sending the proceeds to charity, would you prefer that Mr. Unscrupulous just silently steals it all?
This is in the same project.
>>Eh, I found Jonathan's "Buying yuppies coffee will improve the world!" naivete far more offensive.

heh... fair enough! In fact, I totally agree. I don't actually know much about the original project, besides the mechanics of it. Perhaps Sam could explain this in the post? as it is he just comes off as condescending for no clear reason.
They have that right, no matter how much I may disagree. But everyone I was actually talking to has been suspended or left preemptively, the organization I work for got booted, my non-tech-savvy friends and family aren't budging from Facebook, and my circles are dead. I was really excited about Google+ when it launched, but from where I sit, they've done a much better job of discouraging people from using their service than of actually building it up.
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Are there any stats available that show the historic performance of YC or TechStars funded companies? I know YC has hit a number of homeruns in Heroku, and AirBnb, but what is their success rate? 10% 5%?
From the company that advocated being able to re-invent your identity when you come of age. So obviously they recognize that there is a problem, they just don't know what to do about it.

Has anybody else been getting the feeling that the company vision has been very confused since they changed CEOs?
>It lacks substance though.

It has much more substance than your response, which consists mostly "oh yeah? well for my use case...". Kinda a dumb way to respond to an article that argues "hey, these have got their fair share of uses cases that they'll be sticking around".

I use an hdtv as my primary monitor all the time, I know plenty of people who do the same. It all depends on the particular display if it will look decent or not.

External drives are kind of a pain in the ass. Except for the drive I move between devices all the time, its just more to get in the way.

Ah, so one line of laptops has good hardware. That does not mean the pc moving ahead, portables eventually catching up cycle is dead, or that software's ballooning requirements are ever going to stop ballooning.

You treat your tower like shit and are surprised it's beat to hell?

Yes, the itty bitty mac keyboards are neat on a desktop, but they're infuriatingly slow for a lot of things you apparently don't need to do. I have numbers to calculate and programs to write, consequently I have an apple bluetooth keyboard-shaped dent in my wall.
QR codes is another one of those developer/designer driven fads (IMHO).
I'm not aware of any stock camera application that does QR detection. This combined with the time it takes to open the application and scan it, seems more convenient to place a well thought out url instead.
That's not to say it can't be the future. But having bad QR experiences now is not going to help QR codes grow.