skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're all arguing over data we don't have, but if they have that kind of information I think they have also considered search box focus. Seeing that they don't have it, one can draw the conclusion that for their site it was not profitable.
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This is a dangerous statement; but I know that raising the minimum wage doesn't really hurt people making six figures; but, doesn't it hurt people making only a small multiplier of minimum wage? Like people making 1.25x minimum, and 1.5x minimum, because they'll now be making 1.05x and 1.15x minimum wage, reducing their own personal buying power once the prices settle again..?

I'm all for people earning more functional income. I've said before that I hate the corporate-level, money-hungry models of wages; but I had been taught that increasing the minimum wage, though it helps for a short while, ends up hurting in the end
They can get a warrant to pick your lock and install a keystroke logger, or bust in while you're using your computer, forcibly separate you from it, and download the encryption key from memory.
That's a decent explanation that covers part of what monads are, although since it uses Python, it cannot express the type goodness that comes with monads in languages such as Haskell and, more recently, Rust.

Both Haskell and Rust exploit compile-time typing to avoid having null (or nil, or None, or whatever) pointers in the language -- something which eliminates an entire class of errors that plague most of today's languages, including Python.

The reason they can do this is that with Maybe, the wrapped value is either something (Just a) or nothing (Nothing). Since Nothing is a type (more technically a type constructor), not a value -- unlike something like Python's None, or C++'s null -- it cannot be passed as the value to a function which expects a valid pointer to a different type:

-- This won't work
setUserName(user, Nothing)

Another thing about Haskell is that the IO system relies on monads for a very specific reason, or maybe two reasons. Since Haskell is lazy and pure, it needs a mechanism to express the fact that a function has actually done some work, even though -- from the compiler's point of view -- it hasn't. For example, consider a function call such as:

putStrLn "Hello world"

Well, this function has nothing particular to return; in most languages it would be a "void" function or return a null value. But this would not work in Haskell, which is designed to (1) optimizes function calls that return the same value (so if you call this more than once, Haskell would normally just evaluate it once), and (2) completely eliminate function calls whose values are not used.

For this reason, Haskell's putStrLn has to return a unique value every time it's run, just to convince the compiler that it should not be optimized away. And so it does -- this is the IO monad. putStrLn returns a new IO value for every call. Since it always returns a new value, this ensures that Haskell won't optimize it away.

There is another aspect to the IO monad: Haskell being lazy and pure, it's allowed to evaluate everything out of order. The way the IO monad is passed, baton-style, between each operation ensures that the compiler is forced to evaluate I/O operations in the sequence they appear in the code. Well, mostly. You still have to be careful; you can easily end up in a situation where a read is only evaluated after you closed a file, for example.

(I'm not a Haskell expert, so I would be happy to be corrected on any point. Note I have glossed over some technical details in my explanation that would just complicate things.)
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That doesn't really speak to the issue.

Please answer my question about me describing myself as a singer. Would you feel I was being dishonest as describing myself as such?
> Who says a "Real Names" policy any significant impact on a harasser?

Because if this service was worth any merit, the real name attached to the hateful speech will have the same reputation-destroying effect as it being printed in any literary source. I completely understand that this won't deter everyone, but it will deter most people.

I have very high demands for this type of service, folks assume that people using the platform will just fake the 'Real Names' policy. Well, I don't want some hokey system in place, when I talk about linking a Real Name to someone's content, I'm linking a real person to their content. How will this connection be establish, maintained and not abused? I don't know, but I do know if it worked in the appropriate manner, there wouldn't be so many functional holes as people keep saying.

G+ in its current form does not appease my demand for a service that utilizes a real "Real Names" policy - they half-ass it and frankly retard the prospect of someone trying to do it legitimately and true to form.
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I don't quite agree with your phrasing, but as an indie iOS dev on the app store since 2010, I sadly have to agree 100% with what you said. It is what it is. Some people might find it easier to swallow if instead of "cheating" you simply called it CPI though.
Here is a plan - set the minimum wage at a level where one person working full time will not have to collect any state benefits in order to raise their family.

Any other level, is an indirect but tangible subsidy to companies who employ minimum wage staff
Yes, adsense generates virtually nothing. I had it up for about 6 months and it generated ~$70 or so. The site does get a lot more traffic now but regardless, it seems like I would receive far more income from something like BuySellAds.
Sorry, I meant that as in reliably renders whatever you throw at it. This where others would fail, i.e. sections of the page would be not be rendered, or they would execute javascript, but the execution would fail half way through,, it would crash if the site embedded certain resources, that kind of thing.
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> it does hurt their employment advantage

Ar there areas whith a shortage of unskilled workers?
> This of course also assumes people aren't faking out the "real name" restriction to begin with...

I'm not talking about a service that half-asses the feature. I'm talking about a legitimate link between my online persona and my actual real name. G+ doesn't nearly meet my demands for this service, but at least they're trying it and hopefully making progress on legitimacy.
That seems to be the effective argument against having a minimum wage at all. Once you establish a social contract that says that human effort should be valued at no less than a particular amount, we just accept that some level of underemployment as a result of that.
Definitely true. And frankly, I only found out about some of the games yer mentioning through the IGF. Festivals and such are a great way to get yer name and game out there, but those are kinda limited to quality, unique games.

And, as for Super Hexagon, I'll play anything Terry Cavanagh makes. He is a fucking god. 4-Letter-Word melted my brain.
How big is a fully sequenced genome, as a file?
Sequencing is critical to quality control in synthetic biology. Better/cheaper/faster sequencing = better/cheaper/faster synthesis. It's like chocolate and peanut butter.
Seems reasonable, but the Ember team sees it differently... they put state in the router:

>Most of your controllers will be very small. Unlike other frameworks, where the state of your application is spread amongst many controllers, in Ember.js, we encapsulate that state in the router. This allows your controllers to be lightweight and focused on one thing.
can you post a link to this?
The signal is probably stronger in what they search for than in what they read or post in forums (which far fewer people do than search for things, anyway).
I do have eventual plans to make a "Premium Templates" section but I need to find a graphics designer and LaTeX pro who are willing to work for a percentage of sales to make this a reality. The rest of the templates are not made by me so I have no right to sell them.
This is the wrong approach - simply ask what level of wage is needed to prevent a worker having to claim state benefits. Anything else is subsidising the employer
Ah. Works in FF but not in Chrome.
just another story of a business getting involved in public policy in order to hurt competitors. costco can (and already does) pay workers more than minimum wage as is in line with their operating philosophy. government shouldn't be in the business of regulating wages, that's an agreement between an employer and employee.
I've recently started tinkering with my Arduino again, and was going to start looking for a tool to build some basic schematics online. Good timing; CircuitLab looks awesome!
Regardless, the Earth didn't substantially speed up between Ariane 4 and 5, so although the horizontal velocity figure might not be zero, it would at least be approximately constant on the platform.
I have yet to see any evidence that the Flat UI folks violated any copyrights. It doesn't look like the Flat UI guys made verbatim copies of any of LV's art, nor does it look like they took LV's art and altered it to hide its origins.

It looks more like someone came from the viewpoint of "let's make some icons like LayerVault's," which may or may not be an IP violation, but it certainly is not a violation of copyright.

If LV knows differently, they certainly don't appear to be interested in telling us how they know, hence the pitchforks.
So what is the threshold? Two made up DMCA notices? One hundred made up DMCA notices?
Well, I guess if you have some million dollar idea and the market/human resources to produce it, you probably should do that this weekend instead.

Keep up your brilliance every weekend and you could retire to some tropical island of your choice by the end of this month. If your brilliance also correlates to previous time, I don't know how you have time to write back and forth with me over HN, you should probably be busy with your billion dollars or so right now.

The reality is, great ideas take time to produce. If you want to dedicate years of your life to producing a great idea, go ahead. I wish you good luck. If you'd like to have a few beers that weekend, meet some cool people, play with some cool technology, and possibly walk away with five new Macbook Airs or whatever HN folks would like to spend it on, come party.
As mentioned above, the proxied model data is actually stored in a controller's "content" field. So that snippet is actually just shorthand for {{#each controller.content}} {{/each}}
Your assertion is that "Ember is not about desktop apps". Yes, it is entirely about Desktop apps in terms of structure and approach.

These apps are built on the web. One look at the Discourse Ember code and I think you'll understand perfectly the confusion I'm writing about.

But I'm curious: do you use Ember or are your responses "what you think"
LOL, give it an acronym and it's a legit business.
(I do product at CropUp.)

Thank you. This doesn't look like a lot of fun to read... Will suffer through this. Again, thank you very much. Very helpful, very appreciated.
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That's the oldest, tiredest objection to commenting that you could possibly write. It's the first objection raised by every wet-behind-the-ears, new-grad coder. It's a cliche. It's also crap. Yes, unmaintained comments will go out of date. That's why you maintain them, just like you maintain your code. And don't argue that it's too hard -- writing code is harder, and you do that all day long.

Your first job as a professional programmer is making the rest of your team more productive by reducing the communication burden. Your second job is understanding old code. The amount of code you personally write is a distant third priority.
I believe my point was that, as wages change, so does that number. Isn't that part of the whole "cost of living" differences from one place to the next? People make different amounts of money, therefore they can spend different amounts of money on things they need, and the supply/demand curve adjusts accordingly?

See: price of an apartment in Washington vs Texas

Long complaint short: It's broken. How do we fix it?
(I do product at CropUp.)

I shall and I will. Thank you very much.
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Coinbase's "daily limit" is, as far as I can tell, a rolling "daily limit". Keep retrying and you can buy bitcoins.

Source: I bought BTC on coinbase right before I replied to your comment.
> Whenever I interview for a job, I'm never able to demonstrate this skill. The Fizzbuzz problem doesn't allow me to show off my commenting skills.

A good interview process does let you show off your commenting skills. FizzBuzz is useless to measure ability, but wonderful for screening out those who have literally no ability. For my money one of the most valuable components to a good interview is a code sample, either look at code they've written in the past or give them a small problem to work through.

I might be biased though. I got more job offers from companies that interviewed me that way, including my current position :)
> onclick="mutateGlobalStateAndPerformIO()"

What's wrong with that? Other than scoping problems (which Angular solves), this is far more in line with classic view-controller than anything else.
Maybe bitinstant.com
Actually the time spent writing the web version was small, and it was as a way to prove the idea and (in a limited way) crowdsource level design.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-Shipping-New-Version-Pro... which beats yours by 28 cent. But if 95 cent is worth 4-8 weeks of lost time (shipping), great data sheets and reliability (hmmm...looks like this ATmega has been in a toaster before being in an Arduino), then you seriously need some financial tips :P
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I see the point of this guideline, but will still argue that Circa provides more value to the readers here since it links out to multiple sources (also linked to SFgate: http://blog.sfgate.com/nov05election/2013/03/04/george-mille...), therefore giving readers a more holistic view of the story.
Of course. The argument is about where you set the minimum. Everyone agrees that a $100/hr minimum wage wouldn't work because the vast majority of jobs wouldn't support that. So the question is how high can you go before the underunemployment effects outweigh the "human effort should be valued" bit.

7.25? 10? 15? Reasonable people can disagree.
I got down to the bit where the author tries to make it personal, then gave up.

It's not about being personal or publishing private emails; it's about a respected publication approaching an established writer and asking for free product to sell on. Doesn't matter whether it was the poor dear's first fortnight in the job or if she'd been there 25 years.
Knows too much about what? The view lives to present the data to the user - that's all it should know. The fact that the controller is the data is a design problem.
Posts like these are a great inspiration. I hope to see an update post with information regarding to how well it/you are doing. Also, the web based demo is sweet.
The main argument for me is that it leads to higher unemployment for teenagers and its affects on small businesses trying to get part time workers.
I would recommend Amazon SES (http://aws.amazon.com/ses/) Take a look at http://sendy.co/ as it's a PHP script if you don't want to write your own.
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For sure -- the physical aspect is definitely something worth mitigating too (in both the case of the Prezzy Card store, and the Net Cafes having video). If I was going full paranoid, I'd probably find some way of altering my appearance too -- but that seemed like it involved overly much effort at the time :).

I was just surprised that, with a little effort, it wasn't actually that hard to gain a markedly greater degree of anonyminity than you'd usually have.
not true and way too simplistic. If they can't get employed at all because the minimum wage is too high, the entire burden falls on those same state benefits.
It runs a full blown browser in the background so it should handle most things you can throw at it.
Costco is free to pay their employees as high of wages as they'd like, no legislation required. This lobbying isn't out of their good will but a strategic play to hurt competitors that rely on lower wages. Such is politics.
FWIW you can actually migrate between most major VCS systems without losing your history.
localbitcoins.com will work in a lot of places. ziggap.com is another one similar to coinbase. ziggap uses western union/ money gram and so has higher fees, but less wait time. also have seen btc sold on ebay, but with a pretty big markup.

also, you can mine them yourself ;-)
Wow, I never looked at DN before and I don't think I will start now. In that thread they come across as thuggish scumbags who don't care about evidence and believe that anyone should be able to use the legal system to bulldoze competitors doing "similar" work.

Also, this Allan guy whoever he is, is dripping with self-importance.
Why not set minimum wage to $35/hr and we make everyone middle class?
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Glad to hear it. Take the advice on cheating with a grain of salt. Some excellent legit strategies have shown up in this thread, too.

Additionally, if you are going to cheat, get that monetization play in order first.
(Founder, here. Hi)

Mr.Maddog just wrote in to hello@sway.fm to tell us he liked our app so much that he posted this link to HN.

The Sway.fm team is working on a new Mac app that will provide better integration with native apps, and a whole lot more.

Details to come, if you're interested, get the chrome extension for now. We'll push a notification through that once the mac and phone apps are launched and live.

Thanks for any feedback: hello@sway.fm or http://twitter.com/swayfm
> You may be proud to have mastered a little-used feature in your language of choice that saves you a line of code here and there, but if the cost is that 80% of the people reading your code later are confused, you're not winning.

What if it's a feature little-known within your team, but considered common or even idiomatic in the wider world?
1) "GOOD ARTISTS COPY, GREAT ARTISTS STEAL"- Picasso

-Most often done by... Jonathan Ive

See examples here... http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Arts/Arts_/site_furnitur...

2) Has anyone visited LayerVault's site?

Does anyone think that they invented all of the styling, color schemes, magnifying effects, icon styling out of thin air?

Anyone seen google do something similar? (looks waaaaay better than LV old site BTW)

3) If you wanted to shame someone, the best way to do so would have been a blog post...

See OXO v.s. Quirky http://goo.gl/Zccse

4) It's impossible for an idea to be truly unique/novel. They are always tangents/leaps based on a previous discoveries or insight.
Someone who is hiding from an abusive ex would be best served by stringent privacy settings that make them invisible in search, etc. Unless they plan to delete and recreate their online presence every time someone accidentally reveals the connection.

I'm not saying you should be required to use your birth name, but Facebook/Google+ accounts ought to be the same as what you use in the real world. Anything else detracts from the quality of everyone else's UX. If that's not your legal name, then fine. It's still you real name, not a handle like superuser2 or dalke.

A good solution would be for Facebook to support pseudonyms for web comments and forum functionality, but display real names to your friends. Real names also make sense on Google+, but I don't support Google's actions wrt YouTube.
On the contrary

Google Glasses are not surveillance devices. They are not surreptitious. By the notions of all party consent, every smartphone video capture (which includes audio, and often includes the conversations of other people) would see people thrown in jail. Is that happening?

By any rational measure a big camera on the side of your head tells everyone that they are being recorded. No one will ever see any legal issues for this and that is a gigantic red herring.
Plausibly it tests out that people who expect the arrow keys / space to scroll the page get more annoyed by having to click out of a search box than people who want to search right away get annoyed by having to click into a search box.
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I'd definitely say that Ember is more Desktop MVC than MVC2. True to it's Sproutcore/Cocoa roots, you are supposed to be able to wire up a lot of the application with the built-in controllers that don't have to be customized (or at least customized very little). Ember is trying to take that approach, make it more familiar to web developers, and add in some additional parts that are part of what makes the internet work (ie, routers for managing state/bookmarkable urls).
A bit of statistics about minimum wage workers http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm
Wasn't there a preorder that had the new ones (32bit) for 5$? Wish I'd have gotten in on that thing. Maybe that's causing a little confusion on the pricing here.

Edit:When talking about TI, i thought I'd share this subsite by TI (http://tideals.com/) for anyone who isn't savy on it yet. They don't have a deal right now though.
It's more than just the underemployment vs. "human effort should be valued" balance, though.

There's a meaningful stimulus and multiplier effect to be found when people who pretty much have to spend every single dollar they get to stay afloat get a few more dollars to spend.

I'm at a point where if I got a small increase in marginal revenue, it wouldn't really change my spending. I remember a time, however, when a .25/hour increase made a meaningful impact on what I could purchase.
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I hope you lose your IGF judge status for this, if you actually are one.
Yup, and you definitely don't want those annoying people who actually value their privacy and restriction on employer control over their lives!

Drug tests are an effective filter to ensure you have a compliant work force.
Wonder how many iOS developers feel home with Ember?
I don't. I also do Rails, and I feel more at home with Batman than Ember.
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I think the problem is MVC itself is a confused mess. It means whatever each person wants it to mean, since it's too easy to make up a bunch of reasonable sounding argumentation for whatever you want to do if you use the words model, view, and controller a lot.
The teenager at home trying to get some spending cash or save for college doesn't need to support a family. Every job doesn't need to support a family.
Another way to achieve this goal is to include a ticket number in any commit relating to it. That way you can easily find out why the changes had to be made at that time (assuming your tickets have good descriptions - they do, right?)