skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy the post achieved it's intended effect, which was to get someone at Coinbase to respond. So yeah, I'll be the first to admit that I abused the HN post by turning it into a defacto customer service request instead of something newsworthy.

But, on the other hand, this is somewhat newsworthy. You have a company trying to start up in a very tough space where you need to be super-reliable and super-transparent. Coinbase's actions this entire week were neither. Let me repeat that important middle part. An entire week. This is not an "OMG my transaction took a day instead of an hour!" for one or two people.

It's not like I was posting a customer service request for myself. Look at twitter and you'll see a lot of people with troubles greater than mine.

Perhaps I should have prompted some Bitcoin-related blogger to write a nasty post and then link to it? Would that have turned the post into a "news" one and passed the gate?
I think I could poll a dozen people at my office and not get a single person who has even seen the Curiosity pictures.

OK, let me rephrase an earlier comment someone made in the thread: we fly semiautonomous nuclear-powered robots with cameras to Mars, and make it seem like no big deal.

That last bit is the true triumph of the engineer. The hardest part is making it look easy.

Ask your grandparents how cool the first jet aircraft seemed at the time!
Made in San Diego
Another interesting (yet never shipped) take on notifications by Mozilla:

http://jbalogh.me/2012/01/30/push-notifications/

These would have allowed sites to send you notifications after you had left the page, like iOS's push notifications work.
Should SPEC pay for static analysis services like Coverity on the code that enters the benchmark?

Or does it take a law to make them fix bugs in the code they ship?
The 'feel special' analogy is a terrible one. Surely you don't propose picking the first person off the street to marry just because they want to be married?
I agree with you, but honesty can be expressed in different ways.

"I'd never heard of you guys, but when I was searching around your thing seemed a lot more interesting than some of the other things."

And on the employer side, unless you've actually got tanks out back from having turned water into wine you might notch the erection down a few degrees. There's smart people everywhere, that's not special.
"Instead you sneakily change the subject with "The real question is..." when, actually, that wasn't the question."

You didn't read the parent posts, did you? You should review the conversation. The entire issue at hand is the fact that the title was changed. To summarize:

joezydeco: a mod just deleted the "YC ('12)" off the headline
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428387

pg: Must mean that we're trying to hide the fact that we funded them, right? It could only mean that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428426

niggler: It's a very relevant fact (after all, this is a YC site and Coinbase is a YC company) that was explicitly removed by a moderator. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5428449

In that context, what's being discussed is the renaming, for which PG replies by saying "That convention is for company names that appear in headlines of stories." and pointing to the news guidelines. The rest of the post is a non-sequitur.

I replied by pointing to the only part of the guidelines that discuss titles.

Now you tell me who is being intellectually dishonest :)
I have one of these guys' previous gen devices and it is awesome. Super bright and a very flexible board.
Makes sense, thanks for providing meaningful version numbers. I'm looking at you Chrome, and now Firefox :)
No I can't find it offhand. If youd like some design help I'd be interested. I've been looking for another project to design for a side project. Email is in profile!
Ember without Ember Data
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Bateman
Haha, that scene was definitely part of the inspiration for the project.

IronMan Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
Coding is a Drug
I want to congratulate Archiveteam. You do amazing work in saving dying pieces of the world's knowledge.

Warrior is fantastic software that makes it super easy for anyone to chip in and help. Even on a laptop in VirtualBox, it causes little noticeable battery drain.
Yup. And they wash their hands before and after to avoid cross-contamination with people outside the hospital.

This is the same reason cooks are supposed to be careful about doing this as well: if they contaminate the food, that's a vector for spreading stuff. It simply matters a little less because the actual process of cooking has sanitation purposes.
I tracked it down to http://iphome.hhi.de/suehring/tml/download/old_jm/

The bug is in version 9.3 used by SPEC CPU2006, but no longer in version 9.5.

The current version is 18.4...
Got,

Got Milk?, Displays Got Milk? Advert. Boring

GOThic, Changes terminal font to Gothic?

GoT, Game of Thrones, Decapitates user?, Automatically fires up BitTorrent client and grabs latest episode? Plays ASCII art GoT episode? Cat's all of GRRM's GoT novels into your terminal? (That'll teach you).
These exist. Rates are easy (http://www.zip-tax.com/) and the filing portion can be handled by HR/Payroll companies like Paychex (http://www.paychex.com/payroll-taxes/sales-tax-payment.aspx)

Though I'm sure there is an opportunity to help small companies since most companies who currently need to manage national sales taxes are large (have a presence in every state).
I really like your idea and its pretty self explanatory once you watch the demo. I also like that your demo is somehow hidden - you can't just watch it, you just use the product for the first time and learn it. Don't change it - it's fun and makes for a 'wow' moment.

After some time I started to wonder why I would need a QR... well... QR must be pairing a unique computer/ip/browser (?) with the phone, right? Nice.

I would not bother to add too much explanations on the main page - now its a little mistery and I like that demo is 'hidden' (see above). Also, dont add that both presentation machine and phone must be connected to the internet - it is evident and even if it is not, well, people will figure it out.

Edit: As others mentioned, need for network connection introduces some serious uncertainty. I just get it and would never take a plane (slide 5?) without a copy of my presentation on me.

Have not been presenting for quite a long time, but will surely give it a go when I do.

We recommend Scan for (iPhone) or Google Goggles for (Android).
You might want to fix ()'s: (for iPhone) (for Android)

Thumbnails for slides on the phone must be your next feature, am I right?
A twitter feed is almost always going to be full of noise updates. An RSS feed from a real blogging platform, especially if you filter to a tag, is going to be far more focused on useful information.
I remember where I was when Curiosity landed on the moon

That's nothing, my parents remember when Lance Armstrong walked on the moon!
"Perhaps I should have prompted some Bitcoin-related blogger to write a nasty post and then link to it? Would that have turned the post into a "news" one and passed the gate?"

As per PG's guidelines, that is the only compliant way. If I were him I'd much rather have the conversation on HN than to have the blogosphere or financial media light up over a controversy.
erm, no? "while true; sl; done"
My understanding of pair programming is that the driver never even touches the keyboard. Do I have that backwards?
> However, in my interactions with people with visual
> disabilities, I've come to understand that for many
> of them, the ability to use the same technology as
> everyone else is actually quite important.

Well of course. Computers are one (if not the) most important tools of our era, and everyone who wants to participate in our technological society needs to use computers in one form or another. But we shouldn't conflate putting computers to work for us with the user interfaces we use to control them.

The good news is that as more and more web applications introduce APIs, they're making it easier to change the interface but still use the tool. Companies could be encouraged to focus more their time and energy on supporting those in the community who want to build alternative interfaces for their applications, instead of using that time and energy to defend themselves from lawsuits.
That's why it is brilliant idea to call them back and ask why! (Which is what the article author did in case of Foreign Office.)
Really? I guess you have a narrow definition of luxury.
Frankly, I think a firehose of ridicule is the last thing this site needs, and I'm sad when I see it upvoted.

I'm inclined to engage in that kind of interaction myself, having learned somewhere along the way that it's what a certain kind of intelligent person does. So I thought it was something to emulate. But I've been re-examining that assumption, largely in reaction to conversations I've seen on HN. I try not to engage in rapid back-and-forth threads that go more than a couple of posts deep. And I try to keep snark at a minimum. Sometimes I fail, but when I do I feel guilty about it, like I'm dragging the site down. I do not feel like I'm accomplishing something with it.

On the other hand, I feel free to be snarky on Reddit since that site is hopeless anyway. :-)

We often see laments about the declining quality of conversation on this site, and I believe such rapid-fire exchanges from leaders in the community are a contributing factor there. It sets a bad tone.
Goes to show that even massively inferior products can win* if they have lower barrier of entry.

*: Winning means quite many very different things: for example you can win number of users / visits (ability to monetize) vs actual usefulness etc...
I have been taking MOOCs continuously since the Stanford ones started (and took some non-video online classes years back at my University) and I am rather concerned about the affect directly giving credit for MOOCs could have on them.

If physical University classes were free and easy to join I do not think I would participate much, and I think the bad taste I get stems from the people who are there just for the credit. Similarly, I wonder about the quality of peer reviews in MOOCs where most people are there for an external incentive.

Personally, I would rather see independent test centers replace the accreditation process for everyone, removing that pressure from the teaching system all around.

Also, I would love to hear thoughts from an Actuary on how the independent test system affects their profession and their expectations when meeting a new colleague.
That story is apocryphal[1]. To use the example Snopes used, "nova" in Spanish doesn't mean "doesn't go" any more than "notable" means "no table" in English.

[1]: http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
> Can AI be a consumer?

Yes, AI can be programmed to consume. See Lem's novels as examples.

Of course, you can easily get nonsensical results.
Got any suggestions as to alternatives?
This is the fundamental problem with modern liberal economic thinking:

>>First, it’s a well-understood though not often mentioned point that even in a plain-vanilla market, a monopolist with high fixed costs and limited ability to price-discriminate may not be able to make a profit supplying a good even when the potential consumer gains from that good exceed the costs of production. Basically, if the monopolist tries to charge a price corresponding to the value intense users place on the good, it won’t attract enough low-intensity users to cover its fixed costs; if it charges a low price to bring in the low-intensity user, it fails to capture enough of the surplus of high-intensity users, and again can’t cover its fixed costs.<<

Sure, it's well understood that certain people want others to provide a service that certain people find very valuable, but aren't willing to pay for. That doesn't mean that service must be provided by the government when private parties refuse to provide it.

In 2003, I wanted an online store where I could purchase all of my pet-related supplies. This would make me, and society, far more productive because we would not have to spend time going to the pet store and purchasing those products. We could all then spend that extra time being productive. Potential consumer gains exceeded production costs.

Unfortunately, actual consumer gains did not exceed pets.com's production costs. So it died. And guess what? It turns out that when a company learned how to properly structure, supply, and support such a service at the right price, people were willing to pay for it, and thus actual consumer gains exceeded actual production costs.

The government didn't have to step in and supply this vital service to its citizens. Some of the smarter citizens figured out how to do it, at assuredly a fraction of the cost of whatever government program might have been implemented.

Note: before you claim that pets.com failed for some other reason, please stop. I picked it as an obviously frivolous example. You can substitute most other recent government programs if you’d like.
Magento is a beast, but more than capable of handling heavy load and a large set of products if configured correctly.

Currently we host a 6 node enterprise cluster; utilizing varnish and memcached.

The biggest downside to magento is learning the platform, there are lots of quirks and oddities that tend to pop up.

Also beware of magento connect! It's not that most of the modules available are bad (believe me there are a bunch that are), but when you never want to use the auto-install functionality built into the admin. I have seen a few attempts where people (mostly unqualified) will go ahead and install something to get a particular feature. This ends up leading to the entire installation becoming hosed.

(http://alanstorm.com/category/magento)
This guy has a bunch of extremely useful information about magentos' internal functionality and is a great place to start when questions arise.

heres a link to a performance white paper they put out a little while back, but is still relevant.

From magento https://info.magento.com/PerformanceWhitePaper.html
(they will send an email with link to download)
OR
download directly here
http://www.filedropper.com/magentoperformancewhitepaper-eev1...
Developer Evangelist's are not PR, Marketing, Sales or Recruiting and they are not coding all of the time either - although there are some of these involved. Essentially a Developer Evangelist's role is like a combination of Business, Product Development, Customer Care and everything that is in-between/connected to those roles.

The main role of a developer evangelist though is as a translator. By translator, I mean that they have to explain their product/technology to different audiences in order to get their support. A good developer evangelist gets people/developers excited about a product/technology by pointing out the benefits to the developers who are going to be the ones actually using the product. Thus, developer evangelist's need to be technical because, there is some coding involved in their role and they need to express/find the story in a technical message to get people/developers excited about a product/technology.
http://webaim.org/standards/508/checklist Look at this list, most of it you should be doing as a developer anyways.

Edit: I fail to see how this is any different than making sure your webpages are not vulnerable to SQL Injection, XSS, CSRF...etc. Surely you protect your websites against those, and write code accordingly, right?
The professors were asked about courses they designed to not be accredited. Of course they would respond that way. It says nothing about the future of online education.
maybe if enough people get sick of losing real money, we will finally be able to put some regulation around ecomerce sites security, privacy and data protection
I agree.

But that advantage may still exists if Netflix has no DRM.
The one bad thing about switching to the Dvorak layout is that in Dvorak, ls is really cumbersome to type. The l isn't on the home-row, and both of them are on the right pinky. The way I do it now, it's virtually impossible to type sl instead of ls.

Typing dc instead of cd, though is still very common. And dc just mockingly tells me: "will not attempt to process directory."

(I now have `no` aliased to ls. Maybe I should alias `on` to sl.)
Brains of the Animal Kingdom: Research shows we've underestimated
that's what I was trying to get at. I think it was a neat side effect. I just don't necessarily subscribe to the idea that it was a priori goal or priority when these phones were being designed designed.
I wonder if vimscript has the bindings to do this too. You can get the current line and the contents of the line, so executing something on the command line seems feasible. The communicating with the browser however probably requires running a separate process which probably involves dependencies so installing the extension wouldn't be as simple as just a github submodule add.
I'd do a density adjusted land tax, mineral rights tax, & a immigration head tax, combined with a minimal basic income and a massive cut in services.
You can't always fix the numbers. There will always be a minority, women, black people, blue eyed people...
"Why Python", anybody?
If we have infinite labor, we have infinite resource extraction capabilities (limited by our access to energy).

The scenario I see is solar-powered space mining.
No, the amount of surface area the parachute would need would in order to apply sufficient braking force in time would be too large.

That said, a bumper case where the "bumper" was an airbag would be eminently practical. If the phone could notify the case that it had been falling "too long" (which is to say the phone now believes it is travelling too fast to resist damage) a small electrical trigger to activate a chemical reaction and inflate a bumper cases 'edges' to 10x their size would effectively prevent any damage for most situations. Unlike the parachute the energy absorbing effects of airbags are available nearly instantly.
Why Julian?
You're right, and I'm wrong. I'm going to edit that.

I know what you mean about trying and failing. 95% of the time I resist the impulse to make comments like this. Most of the other 5% I go back and delete it.

Thanks for the surprisingly thoughtful comment.
This is good. It's very good to have things that just won't break. The successor to curl 7 should probably not be called "curl", just like the successor to JSON, if there is one, should not be called "json".
They come built in.
if UK horse population went from 1m in 1900 to 20K in 1914, with half the decline being attributable to WWI in 1914, that would mean 490K out of 510K British horses alive at start of war died in those 5 months.
It took me a long time to find the special girl for me. If you approach dating as "any girl will do", then I feel sorry for the girl that ends up with you.

I don't know how you translated "wanting to hire people who want to work here" into "happy rainbow snowflake dreamland", but so long as people who don't care about our product or market feel weeded out, then I'm happy. For others reading this who do actually care about the people, product and technology you work with, please let me know at jobs@circleci.com.
Thanks for the comment! Yup, I'd prefer that the user would actually slide left or right and see the thumb on the phone, but that will probably come once I learn IOS dev.

Side note: If any mobile devs would like to join the team, shoot me an email - anton at Uslide.net
it was an artifact of the build system at the time that i think was inherited from VC++
Says something about patents and their effect on society, doesn't it?
ouch! fixed, thanks :)
Meh. Look at the example reasons in the post you're responding to; you don't need an answer like "I want to save the world, and I'm pretty sure the best place to start is in the plastic chair manufacturing sector".

If the best you can offer is "uh I need a job" that means you don't know a damned thing about the company you're applying to, doesn't it? I.e., you found a list of 30 companies that are offering jobs in your city that vaguely match your CV, and instead of reading about them and choosing a few, you're taking the shotgun approach.

If you read about them, what made you choose this one?

Do they seem like they have a culture that's better than your last job? Do they use a language you like (and/or would like to use more)? Are they doing something you know anything about, or find interesting at all, or can at least categorize as "not morally objectionable"? Almost anything is better than "I need a job".
He's commenting as an expert in Economics, not internet protocols. In this case, he's looking at the economic effects of a service that is valuable to it's users, and that appears to be both slightly unprofitable and a nautral monopoly. He's not coming to any definite conclusions, he's exploring a set of ideas; not drafting policy. Your comment adds nothing to the discussion; so what are you getting out of making it?
I am curious, on what basis he was asked to change the name? As per my understand, It is certainly not a trademark infringement, if not belonging to the same business domain.
Honestly I don't have an issue with Firefox/Chrome for the rapid version number increases. A browser is the most updated (or should be) bit of software on your computer. Honestly I don't even think of the version of Firefox or Chrome these days. They are just "Firefox" and "Chrome". This is much better for general users IMHO as it just means they use "Firefox" and not "Firefox 4.1.2" or whatever. A consistent update schedule makes a public version number pointless and it has, at least in my experience, made extension developers better at building extensions that don't break because I have upgraded from version 15 to 16 like we had back in the Firefox v2/3/4 years.

At the end of the day when the version number isn't really known to the end user it makes little difference if you bump up the major version number or the minor.

Also I love how quickly we get new features now. Firefox has improved more in the past year than it did in the past several years before the shift to a 6 week release cycle. It isn't suited to all software I admit but for a browser it is perfect. None of this "This site only works with Firefox XX or Chrome XX". Thank god!
"There are some exceptions: Amazon currently charges California residents sales tax"

I hate this incorrect terminology. Amazon merely collects sales tax on behalf of the state. The state is the one charging the sales tax.
I don't think it was clear at all.

1) 18 months ago, banks in Cyprus passed EU bank stress tests.

2) The EU has a deposit guarantee.

3) The new Prime Minister was elected because he promised deposits would never be touched.

4) Other countries received bail-outs without affecting deposit holders.

Given the above, I think it would be quite reasonable for an ordinary Cypriot to put faith in the EU and their elected government, and just get on with their lives.
> She stated the SendGrid supported her actions, and without SendGrid saying anything, they are implicitly agreeing that they support her.

I don't think we can blame SendGrid for wanting to take a few hours to figure out this mess and respond appropriately, and I don't think we can believe someone that was acting irrationally to begin with to make definitive commentary on where her company stands on the matter.