skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attitudes like this lead to spending three sleepless days getting an obscure Linux variant running on a Powerbook G4 with nothing more than two old forum posts and a pot of coffee.

And yes it's fun as all hell. :)
"If Amazon creates a store in my living room through the magic of the internet"

Why should that count as "creating a store", when taking telephone orders or sending out mail-order catalogs doesn't?
Yeah, sure.

> Dietrich says, “a pilot of one of our vehicles—once issued a use permit—can just drive up, swipe through the gate, taxi, and take off. You don’t even have to talk to anyone.”

That's bull. You're gonna have to talk to someone. Whether you're at the smallest airport in the country or not, you're going to need to get on UNICOM and state your intentions otherwise you're either going to kill yourself or get a bunch of pilots pissed at you. And if you're at an airport of any size you have to talk to ground control so you don't get in a crash on the ground and then get clearance to take off so you don't get in a crash in the air.
Led light strips
If we use your service do you have any terms for selling an app on the store? Do we have to give you a % or can we just freely do what we wish/if we pay your service?
Python-based implementation of Notch's DCPU-16
Oh no, the risk is much, much greater for you if you're planning on creating any more AStore apps using the developer id in this one.
It's a feature of having a 3rd party as part of the transaction. A random merchant trusts Visa to ban people who abuse the system. And merchants are threatened by with being banned if they don't keep quiet about the occasional charge back. However with a pure digital currency there is no independent party, so all transactions are either provisional or finalized with the merchants and customers having total power at different parts of the process.

PS: I am not going to sue if some random website fails to ship a 200$ graphics card. So reputation becomes even more important, but only because fraud will also become far easier.
Pinning The Brand: Is it worth the risk?
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Wrong. In a purely capitalist world, you can choose to avoid the product or use a competing product, or pay more for a premium service without ads.

Thinking that government regulation can be healthy is a horribly naive and extremely dangerous idea.
What you say is indeed true, if you take a monolithic approach to problem solving. And I tire of this approach--dammit, we're tool-builders! We have been shown the Unix Way, and yet we ignore it time and again, forcing us into suboptimal solutions to our problems.

Moving "QUUX formatted records from BAZ mainframe to new Oracle Windows Java 7.0 Lightweight Enterprise Server" involves these things: a source, a sink and the pipe character. Your source and sink may necessarily be in Java--meh, whatever works. But now you have a decoupled framework for doing these kinds of jobs, and you haven't invested any more time or effort than you would have with your one-off, inflexible solution. And you can now stuff anything in that pipeline. And I regularly use racket for exactly this, using protocol buffers as the pipe character. It's not rocket science, it's the Unix Way. People, embrace it and free yourself from the monolithic millstone!
At the risk of perhaps angering the Linux community here (I work on a Linux box too), may I suggest that's where Windows 8/WP7 is going? And at further risk of anger, I will suggest that Android has reached its peak.

Evidence for point 1: Windows has such a large base of "desktop" applications with a larger base of active developers. Not only that, the majority of the world uses their standards for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, etc. Honestly, OpenOffice and GoogleDocs are both still horrid. Horrid. Compared to Word 2010 on both Windows computers and OSX-based computers. Guess what? Most of the world, including us techies, still need to present, write documentation, yadda yadda. Perhaps when/if someone else develops an open/Ubuntu/RedHat/etc office suite that can actually match MS Office in ease of use and in reliability, then I'll change my mind.

Evidence for point 2: Android has grown quickly in the past three years because (in my opinion) of personalization, novelty, hardware, and free angry birds (maybe not). Android being "open" really...doesn't make a big deal to your average consumer (again, this is my opinion based on what I've seen). The big issue that's splitting through the three major draws for Android-based devices is massive fragmentation. On the device side, there are so many Android phones that ALL LOOK THE SAME (but are slightly different), that come out every other week, the novelty of owning "THE NEWEST ANDROID PHONE" dies out every other week. The fragmentation between devices is also massively confusing to the average consumer. Does the consumer want...the Galaxy S II...the Galaxy Nexus Prime...or the Nexus S? And by the way, what's the difference between all six (there are four flavors of the Galaxy S II) of these phones?? Software fragmentation is also leading to a fairly horrid user experience as developers have to develop for 2.3, 3.2, and 4.0.4. Never-mind that the UI actions for each of these OSes are very distinct and different, the UI LOOKS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

I don't know. I'm using a RAZR (first on 2.3 and now on 4.0.4) and I'm still not satisfied with Android. This is coming from one of the first adopters of the G1 (which I still have, and it still functions). I am eagerly waiting for the next generation (after the 900) of Windows phones.

(Wow, this didn't mean to turn into a rant...but hum.)
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Indeed the solution to every problem these days always ends up being: regulate it. But noone stops to ask if:

A) Regulation will actually stop anyone, or just make people try harder to hide it

and

B) Will the side effects of the regulation create more destruction than not having it
Driverless cars would more or less kill an entire job category overnight. Who wouldn't want a truck driver that doesn't make wrong turns, doesn't get distracted, forget to gas up, doesn't need to sleep, eat, or be paid (as much)?
Its not so much that I think they're difficult (although, they really are!), rather that they dramatically increase the computational power required for planning, the sensing required for pose estimation and object tracking, etc. Take Willow Garage's PR2 for example, it's a great robot that can do mobile manipulation, but there's no way a consumer is going to pay $285k (or $400k for the two-arm version).
Because unless you have an unusually high (>1000) concurrency level for your HTTP connections, threads are a more than adequate solution to the problem.
It's pretty ridiculous that the JOBS act applies to companies with revenues up to $1 Billion.
The OP seems to have a real chip on his shoulder about drinking. About half of what the OP said was him putting words in people's mouths (see: "Y U NO DRINK" for an example). This is coming from someone who is also a non-drinker, and who is from a culture in which drinking is almost the only social activity (I'm from Ireland).

That actually puts him in the same company as the brogrammers, who think that drinking is somehow makes their group special. The OP looks at drunken antics and thinks "those idiots" (emphasis on "those"), while they think "we're so cool" (emphasis on "we").

Compare to how I perceive most drinkers: people who want to have a conversation, and use alcohol to provide both the venue and a small social lubricant. Having been to a few github meetups in SF, they're largely sober affairs - I haven't observed much alcoholism or drunkenness. Conferences are a bit worse, but that's because people start drinking earlier.

It's not hard to enjoy these conferences, even as a non-drinker. Geeks chatting to geeks about geekery. Yes it happens in the pub; yes most people are drinking; yes some people have an unhealthy attitude to drinking - but that's life. I would suggest the OP tries again: roll your eyes at those bragging about drinking, ignore the guys slurring their words, and have good geeky conversation with the other 90% (a number which obviously diminishes the longer the event goes on).
Again you're using absolutes. Just because someone complains that "The System" is unfair does not mean they are sitting on their butt doing nothing about it or their current situation. Venting is a common trait & for some it is completely justified.

Even making "good choices" your entire life things may still go the wrong way. Sometimes this is life, sometimes this is "The System". Sometimes "bad choices" make you rich as well(drug dealer, ponzi scheme).
> Use a a *nix instead of Windows (much easier for the mainstream these days with OS X/iOS/Android)

And ubuntu...
Oh, I don't claim it is a silver bullet. It can be frustrating as hell at times. And of course you can build your own distributed, transactional caching layer.

My point is that once you end up with a certain level of sophistication and scaling, you create your own hell. Hibernate is fairly refined technology for dealing with this exact situation. Homebrewing your solution is like wandering around in the desert - if you're smart, you'll make it out, if not, you'll be the next Friendster.

And FWIW, Java EE is not hell if you avoid the overengineered pieces like JSF.
3-4% equity is not really a founder's stake.

Assuming no dilution (a huge assumption for a startup in stealth mode), it would take a $200 million dollar exit under the US tax system (I suspect Germany's is no more favorable) to provide Fuck You money.

In the abstract, a founder's equity stake should provide that sort of money in the $50 million range at exit and should assume dilution unless the company is bootstrapping and already profitable.

What you really have in front of you is an offer to be an early hire at below market salary. There's nothing wrong with that, but see it for what it is.

Good luck.
How Much Testing is Enough?
Internet down? Generate your own Hacker News front page for the next few days offline!

parts = ['emulator', 'assembler', 'compiler', 'disassembler', 'debugger']
languages = tiobe.read().split('\n')
for i in range(31):
print "{} for DCPU16 written in {}".format(random.choice(parts).title(), random.choice(languages))
What's next, "I feel excluded because I'm a naturist"? The author seems to be uncomfortable with drinking and seems to be projecting his discomfort on the people at these conferences. I go to social functions all the time where other people are drinking and I'm not — sometimes it's awkward, sometimes it's great fun anyway (honestly, that's true of dry events too). If that's not his bag, cool, but it's hard to find an actionable suggestion in this post beyond "I think everyone should be like me and not drink." This is not really comparable to creating a hostile environment where women feel objectified or looked down upon.
Is anyone running ZFS on Linux (http://zfsonlinux.org/) on their servers? Appears to be very bleeding edge, but the ZFS codebase itself ought to be pretty stable. I'm running a FreeBSD 9.0 system with ZFS and it's flawless.
This virus spreads from visiting malicious websites or websites with malicious ads. Since not much browsing happens on servers, there is no reason to target them.

>lso, before Mac OS X became as popular as it is now, there were lots of Windows users who hated Apple fanboys and would have loved to write a wide-spread virus that targeted Mac OS X if possible

What? Does that mean that some Windows viruses were written by Mac fanboys to make Windows look bad?

> But it seems like Windows, especially pre-NT and pre-Vista and pre-7, but even now, has a unique vulnerability to traditional viruses

How? Can you explain what you mean by Windows having a unique vulnerability that is not present on a Mac?

> Obviously, Mac OS X can still get hit by trojans if people use intelligent social engineering,

Again, this is a drive by exploit from a web page, not social engineering. Why is this so hard to grasp?
In states where Amazon has no presence, probably (if other courts agree), but with some of the states going after Amazon, like Texas and California, the status is murkier, because Amazon has a physical presence there, but via subsidiaries, which it argues don't count, but the states argue do count. They seem to be settling those cases and conceding the point, though; they've agreed to start charging sales taxes in Virginia and California next year, and Indiana, South Carolina, and Texas sometime in the next two years.
> No, then if you don't drink, you simply don't participate in one of the most prominent ways people socialize.

If that were true that would be bad - drinking at conferences would then truly alienate non-drinkers. But actually, non-drinkers can participate just fine in one of the most prominent ways people socialize.
Boston red sox
Work at Socialcam to become the master of iOS hacks
Badges in UISegmentedControl

UISegmentedControl does not support badges. Unlike UITabBar (UITabBarItem) there is no method to add a red badge with a number indicating activity. And UISegmentedControl does not accept UIViews for it's segment items, just images or titles.

So how did we add badges to our segmented controls in Socialcam? We subclassed UISegmentedControl, and added a setBadge:forSegmentAtIndex: method. This method pulls the text or image out of the segment, adds it to a temporary view, adds a badge to that view, renders it to an image and inserts the image back into the segment. Bam!

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There's always the possibility that this has real value to some people. Assuming that Notch follows through with his claim that you will be able write arbitrary programs to run ingame, then an online playground to prototype these programs might be very useful. Its appeal is unlikely to be as broad as say, JsFiddle, but putting it out there isn't necessarily just self-aggrandizement.
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"A Mac isn’t susceptible to the thousands of viruses plaguing Windows-based computers."

Pretty clear.
Ask HN: Why are these implementations of DCPU16 interesting?
I understand that people are excited about it, but are we really going to go through every permutation of language and component for this architecture on Hacker News's front page? I just feel like everybody raced to develop one to be first.

> 5. Assembler for DCPU16 written in C++ (onlinehut.org)

> 6. Python-based implementation of Notch's DCPU-16 (github.com)

> 20. C-based Virtual Machine for Notch's DCPU-16 (github.com)

> 21. Javascript emulator for Notch's DCPU-16 (jazzychad.net)

I'm sorry to break this to you, but it's a not a novel feat of engineering, as it's a very simple architecture. I'm not sure why people are upvoting these, and I wish the novelty would wear off so we could focus on more important things. Certainly I am proud of a devoted hacker community for throwing all their weight into something new and interesting, but it's worn off for me already on HN.

I'd be happy to see them in one thread, honestly. Just trying to figure out why these are significant news items, that's all. Based on the reaction to this toy architecture, I would pay to see HN's reaction to being shown MMIX for the first time.
None of the anti-abuse code is published.
Given that macs are PCs, being personal computers, it's not true that macs don't get PC viruses.
Nah, I'm just comparing that bit of hyperbole.

Like the "paradigm shift" that was to be the Segway, what problem does this solve exactly?
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I love me some Donald Knuth references
mintchip.ca is registered by the Royal Canadian Mint Corp.
I have XCode installed, so I guess I'm safe from this. Do you have any standard advice for how a regular MacOS user should configure their system to be safe? I don't even have anti-virus software installed like I do on my Windows machine, I assumed the Mac OS took care of that (but not if 1/2 million Macs are infected with this thing =/). I do keep the built-in firewall turned on. Is there a website or something that I can go to that will teach me what steps I should take on my MacBook Pro to keep it clean?
I was going to post the same.
I agree.
OSX is still dramatically safer in terms of your actual risk of a random remote attack.

It certainly was in the WinXP years due to a far superior security model, but I'm curious if this is still the case with modern windows.
I don't think why he doesn't drink should have any bearing on it. He feels excluded from the culture, and it doesn't matter whether that's because he's religious, an alcoholic, etc.

Similarly, one shouldn't have to pretend to be drinking to enjoy a night in the pub (note, I'm a non-drinker who feels perfectly at home in the pub).
"Ember.js is the backbone of our new analytics page". I thought Backbone.js was the backbone of....oh nevermind.
My actionable suggestions are to distance the event itself from the open bar that occurs afterwards. I definitely don't think people shouldn't drink in general.

I also don't think I was comparing it to creating a hostile environment where women feel objectified - I was saying it contributes to a hostile environment for lots of people.
When I first moved here my favorite introduction to the valleys history was Steve Blanks The Secret History of Silicon Valley.

It's well worth the hour http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
How ironic is that ?

http://www.youtube.com/user/yahoo?ob=4
According to some malware researchers I've talked to it is not unusual to find that kind of hardcoded exceptions. I thought that it was to avoid infecting "clever" users, but they told me sometimes malware coders bundle those to avoid infecting their own computers (or their clients') without being to obvious about it. It's apparently not unusual to also find exceptions for IP blocks of whole countries or ISPs.
Fine, but your opinion is in the extreme minority. The majority of people not only don't think it's better than Facebook - they simply don't care.
Excellent use of ANSI COBOL2000 there. Very readable langauge.
I don't see any point behind an offline electronic cash system; they barely made sense in the 1990s, and once there was ubiquitous Internet, made even less sense.

They only make sense for transit (or other one-way systems, not peer to peer), and there, providing Internet at the point of sale is easy.
You'll need to kickstart Moore's Law again.
As Doctorow put it: "every complex ecosystem has parasites".

Personally, I find it hilarious to see old-world business types crowing about the benefits of regulation when they usually do just the opposite.
I wonder if it has Linux support. If not, that's my submission to the competition.
Look at how Google+ is making a showing on every Google property (including search).
Scripting the Vim editor, Part 1: Variables, values, and expressions
Awesome Vim config Github with many useful plugins
this one is one of the more complete ones: has a disassembler. should be trivial to add stepping and breakpoints.
There should just be one thread for all the dcpu-16 implementations
Let's make a deal. I'll start "advancing the conversation" once you stop misleading people (ie. admit that your initial sweeping claims were incorrect).
If you have an above average income like many on HN, people who earn 15 or 20 percent less than you are not generally living in cheap shitty houses and never having fun.

Inflation is a bitch.

Fortunately, there are alternatives to keeping your savings in your mattress.
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There's nothing wrong with reinventing the wheel if your goal is to teach yourself more about wheels.

Understanding something by implementing it in a favourite programming language is at the heart of being a hacker.
We think about extensibility a lot. We think about languages we don't know how to think about yet. But leaving spaces in the grammar for new languages is kind of like reserving some of our land for national parks and national forests. Or like an archaeologist not digging up half the archaeological site because we know our descendants will have even better analytical tools than we have.

This quote, and what little I've sampled of Perl 6, reminds me of a few lines from the movie Wonder Boys:

Grady, you know how in class you're always telling us that writers make choices? [...] And even though your book is really beautiful, I mean, amazingly beautiful, it's... it's at times... it's... very detailed. You know, with the genealogies of everyone's horses, and the dental records, and so on. And... I could be wrong, but it sort of reads in places like you didn't make any choices. At all.
Hi, I'm sorry you got that from the article. I knew it was going to be an issue (which is where the disclaimer came from) and it definitely felt like a losing battle in a way, and that people were going to see me drawing a comparison no matter what in the last few sections. Do you think I should remove the last link?
noreply@ adds friction because it doesn't invite to communicate. I don't know about you but I, for myself, want to communicate with my customer to get feedback as fast as possible. 2 real life example:

* I once sent a email to my customers about an upcoming maintenance window informing them that our platform would not be available for a certain time period. I got one customer quickly replying "next time, please let us know 1 week ahead" Point noted. Now I send my maintenance notice 1 week ahead. Happy customer.

* We have this automatic billing system which sends an invoice through email following payment. I had a customer once replying saying "Hey. That amount should be x+y instead of just x". Point noted. Shit happens and I wanna know.

Yes those customers could have reached us through our website or something but my point is, why not offer them the chance to hit reply? It's so close!

Also, If you don't have a good ticket system to skim through those incoming replies quickly, maybe you should get one. It pays back rapidly.

Your milage may vary.

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