skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I run 3 websites written in Go (http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/uvw2/Thoughts-on-Go-after...)

Those are clearly not Facebook scale servers but for majority of people: you don't need this or any other such solution.

Here's what I do for deployment. I have a fabric script that:

- copies the new executable to the server
- kills currently running executable
- starts the new executable

The worst that can happen is that a few connections will get dropped and that's perfectly fine 99.9% of websites. You don't control internet so the users will get broken connections all the time for reasons you can't eliminate. They shrug and hit reload button.

Complicating things to avoid few seconds of downtime was not worth it for me and rationally, probably not worth it for most.
Thanks match, and I agree. You're still not just out at a bar with buddies, you're there with people you've met at a professional event and the professional context should still apply. I think match says it well:

>when a group of people head out to the bars after conference hours there is plenty of networking going on. People form business relationships and friendships that continue after the conference. A female shouldn't have to choose to tolerate unwanted sexual advances simply to participate in these bonding experiences.
Fellow Philadelphian here. I agree entirely, these are terribly designed and I hardly ever see anyone use these. The fact that much of Philadelphia is covered with trash is a testament to the fact that these have done very little to alleviate the issue.

The primary issue with these is that they have a user interface that increases the friction and time of throwing things away. Having to walk up and grab the handle (which is usually disgusting), throw in your garbage, and then close it, adds a small, though significant enough amount of time that most people can't be bothered to do it (many Philadelphians just throw garbage on the street). Additionally, it is difficult to throw away larger amounts of trash or loads that would require two hands to dispose of.
what about in the context of a widget. I built a reservation widget and we used third party cookies to help keep your order available as you might load the widget on other sites. It was not an Ad, but for casino websites, they would have multiple domains one for each casino but shared the same reservation system... blocking third party cookies pretty much breaks the widget...
Was able to lock in "NeverFold" on all social media level (ie: facebook.com/neverfold, twitter.com/neverfold, pinterest.com/neverfold, vimeo.com/neverfold, you name it).

Hired a PR agency.

Designed a nice-looking website (or so I think -- any feedback welcome).

Got a nice video pitch produced.

Conversion rate from reviewing the rewards to actually ordering is about 8% (is that good?)

Am trying to leverage all social media activities.

Is there anything I am missing? Is there someone who is (or was) in the same shoes as I am? What worked? What didn't work?

Any inputs appreciated.
> No objects = no subtyping.

You are confusing OOP with subtyping.

On my remark about Haskell/GHC with extensions, I'm talking about things like the Dynamic type, existential types, HList and about experiments like OOHaskell.

> The ecosystem matters the least when learning for learning sake.

Actually it matters the most, as good learning can only happen if you go forth and experiment on your own. That's why some languages like Python are popular, because as soon as you read a couple of chapters from a book, it's usually easy to let your imagination loose and build something. In comparison to learning math where proofs are like puzzles, in software engineering the real joy comes from building stuff.
Yeah, compliance is tricky. You can ship (e.g. a repair, or mailing a firearm to yourself if you don't take luggage on a flight), but it's a huge amount of complexity. Initial sale must be in-person or ship to an FFL or a few exemptions (C&R, CMP, pre-1898, 80%), and of course all the non-firearms parts which Amazon usually does sell. Ammunition is more tightly regulated than e.g. barrels.

Once you add in state laws (e.g. Californians can't buy rifles in Nevada in person, although Nevadans and most other state residents can), and the penalties for non-compliance, and I don't think it's reasonable to require Amazon deal with firearms.

Through Marketplace it might be a little bit more vague. But a pure advertising site should be comfortable running firearms ads. If the owner is personally opposed to firearms, no one is forcing him to carry those ads, but I'm a (very small) part owner of Google, so for a public company, it's probably not a great position to take.
Pu-erh is not like ordinary loose tea so it's quite safe to do that. Without stirring or pressing, you don't get too much of the flavor into the water and it's much more coarse. You'll find a lot of the green teas also don't over-flavor the water because of this.
Bad taste and inefficient, sure, but sexist? I don’t see any prejudice or discrimination here on the part of the presenter, apart from possibly discriminating men for not considering them as ‘booth boys’.

My point is really that it is absolutely trivial to shout ‘sexism/sexist’ every time something isn’t the way people would want it to be and one can possibly create a link to women, but overusing the designation won’t help equalising genders and judging people independently of their X and Y chromosomes – much the same way that claims of ‘racism’ whenever a black person is involved don’t help the cause against racism either.
Startup hype - examples & how to avoid it
Also note: if the participant and their partners got all four questions wrong (but got them wrong together), the particpant still "wins", and moves on to the second round. But in this case, they have no evidence that the people on the street can be trusted to answer questions. If this scenario is common, it could be throwing off your expectations.
> But sure enough the kid is rich now.

Fair play to him for doing this himself, but he wasn't exactly poor to begin with. A bit of googling shows the jobs his parents hold and an address on Parkside SW19 (which is one of the most expensive roads outside central London).
Thank you very much for your input! It is very helpful. Yes, the wording right now are not very clear -- being a developer myself, I need to get better at describing the application for non-developers =)

Regarding not being to see the interface without signing up, I am preparing screenshots and a short screencast to use right now. Stay tuned =) I am also working on being able to let users work on their application without signing up at all, similar to how shopping carts application allow users to sign up at the end of the process, but that's longer in the future =)

Thank you for your feedback re: pricing. It's definitely something I'll consider. The current pricing might be a bit pessimistic in terms of the amount of traffic I'll receive and the support I need to provide, and I was thinking it's easier to later reduce the price than to increase if I were to underestimate =)

The calls/month comment is very useful -- a couple other users had also commented on that, and I'll work on clarifying what it is and your suggestion about using pageview is very good.

And thanks on the bug report about the sign up/login page -- I am using an onblur to validate and opening the signup causes the email field to validate -- I'll fix that =)

Thanks for your input! I love HN because of comments like yours!
Awesome project by amazing community!

Thumbs up!
Evil is a totally relative term. Google probably thinks they are being benevolent by taking an anti-weapons stance.

I'd be inclined to disagree...
of all people google is too cheap to have a real live person on the phone doing customer service and because of that you have to email them and wait. you would think a multibillion dollar company can afford to hire some callers, but no, they are too stingy. it is a good strategy if you own google stock though, don't ever expect any service from google though.
>the man in question was graceful enough to climb down and apologize and is widely respected and doing very well for himself today

I remember the event because there was nothing graceful about that man being forced to apologize repeatedly with no place for a rational discussion. It was public humiliation. And the fact that he didn't fought it made it even worse.

Then there were organizers claiming that tweets containing "#europython" were part of the conference but that's another story.
Logan, what you've identified, in a nutshell, is the SV Angel or "spray and pray" hypothesis.
"they are just as fast to open with a little practice"

Agreed. I think the banning of switchblades just pushed knife manufacturers to innovate, creating opening mechanisms which are just as fast, with fewer moving parts, and are actually easier on the knife[1]. So they follow the letter of the law, but still violate its spirit. Not sure what that spirit is exactly though.

[1] In my experience, switchblades and some auto-openers open so forcefully that over time their locking mechanisms degrade.
Guys, why don't you just go ahead and get yourself a tiling window manager??

http://awesome.naquadah.org/
Another breakthrough to consider is an order of magnitude leap back in power consumption.
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I agree that it would be better if Google applied the same rules to other vendors selling similar knives. They are entirely free to decide how you can use their service, there's nothing evil about that.

Edit: To clarify, I've used knives professionally (diving instructor) and recreationally (kite surfer), but I fail to see the non-weapon use for a knife that is small (and therefore concealable) and also opens quickly. Not to mention the window-smashing attachment. [1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&lis...!
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Send me details to vito+yc@ewooy.com
"I'm not dead yet."
Interestingly enough, Alan Kay, who has an undergaraduate degree in the subject, was inspired by biology (particularly the way that field discovers and organizes knowledge) when he designed Smalltalk.
Cool. I recently wrote a low-level sha1 implementation in pure javascript, trying to leverage asm.js (http://github.com/srijs/rusha).

Can you tell me, how did you confirm you wrote valid asm.js and there was no fallback-mechanism kicking in?

I benchmarked my implementation, of course, and noticed a 2x speedup. However, this seems quite less for the this type of low-level algorithm...
OS X 10.8.3 Offers Fusion Drive Possibilities For Non-Fusion Drive Equipped Macs
nice, that was one of the reasons I couldn't use eterm.
Alternative Flat UI Buttons
It is not magic. It's the fat client getting fatter.
Ex ericsson also, were u in plano? San jose?
My favorite comment from the comparison page

https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-vs-mysql-compatibility/

"Timings may be different as MariaDB is in many cases faster than MySQL.
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Who's we if you don't mind me asking? How's your experience of snap been? I'm thinking of building a little SaaS effort on the side and would want to use Haskell for at least the backend, and maybe even the front end with fay.
As a non technical founder I liked the article. Many of the ideas in the article are similar to things discussed in the book The Lean Startup by Eric Reiss . I think PG is a big fan of the way of thinking as well so the fact that the article was written by a YC alum isnt surprising.
"On the other hand, if you do get a LAWYER and are found innocent, the other party will cover your legal fees."

Please don't make a blanket statement like this. It's true in some countries, but not everywhere in all situations.
The UK has knife crime but not knife murder, despite what the fearmongering press would have you believe. The UK murder rate is a quarter that of the US, and is in line with similar countries.
Tablets after hours - dealing with after hours technical support on the go
"Video for PHP Developers"
"- Amazon and Walmart also have X% disallowed knife ads, but X is an extremely small percent of their overall number of items. Accounts remain active."

And the little guy, selling the same product in competition with the big guy, gets killed.

It's often better to have a level playing field.
Gate One: HTML5-powered terminal emulator and SSH client
Open source Bootstrap form builder
Investors also have a hard time valuing optionality, they tend to only see the thing that is currently in front of them. Sure that airbed and couch rental startup might not be a big market but what if they moved into the market for all spaces...
Google has such a large percentage of search traffic that your competitors who are not flagged will have a huge advantage over you.
> Fifth - The assumption is that "Praise publicly, critique privately" is somehow commonplace. I can tell you that outside of the military, nothing I've seen seems to indicate that, and I've been working for some 20 years now.

Were you in the military? If so, how did the "Praise publicly, critique privately" work out in practice?
This is nifty but it does mean users aren't sharing data between machines anymore.
Up-to-date academic resources on CSR and Open Source involvement
I am considering writing my Master Thesis on the following topic "CSR in IT: Open Source Involvement and Its Benefits for the Company". I will be proving why OS can be considered a CSR activity and various ways of how it can help companies.

The main problem I am running into is the lack of academic resources on the topic. Most of the books on Open Source seem to be outdated (early 2000s) and there is very little said about Open Source involvement in the CSR context.

Can anyone suggest books/academic studies on this topic? Case studies are also welcome.

Thanks!
Twitter Holding A Mobile-Focused Event 4/2 To Discuss “Exciting New Features"
Totally agree. His argument basically boils down to this: because the banks can't rip off retail investors by making at least $0.25 per share traded, they can't be bothered to trade and issue research on smaller stocks. Boo-freaking-hoo.
Modern Day Poet Carly Rae Jepsen Now Just Crowdsourcing Her Lyrics
>Google probably thinks they are being benevolent by taking an anti-weapons stance

I think consistency is the bigger issue here. If they take that stance, the should go after Amazon and others and not just the site linked here.
Eavesdropping on a wireless keyboard
An Ode to Hollywood’s Obsession With Hacking the Mainframe
Is your criticism of retargeting based in experience? I'd love to hear more about it.

I work at a "retargeting shop" and our customers test the crap out of our tools to make sure we're actually driving results. Others may use more smoke and mirrors, but when done right, retargeting does in fact change user behavior and generate ROI.
Can money motivate children to learn?
Interesting - my mom should have given me money instead of spankings... The author of a new book beleives that "money" can motivate children to learn. Don't get me wrong I agree money is a big motivator - but to learn?
I think he means that showing you an article is a better experience than not showing you an article.
Looks like about 15 per year.

http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811165.pdf
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I need to download that app NOW
It frustrates me to no end that people can't sit and talk about "things men do that make women uncomfortable" without diverging off into talking about double standards, fairness, etc.

In the 5 years that I hung around the university, I can remember exactly once when a woman made an unwanted advance towards me. I told her that I wasn't interested, she looked a little hurt and backed off, and things were fine. In no way did I feel threatened.

Looking at it from the other side, I know I definitely made more than one woman uncomfortable with unwanted advances (I was pretty awkward back then and didn't even know what I was doing). And I definitely observed (and sometimes stopped) very obviously uncomfortable situations where male classmates were being wildly inappropriate and either oblivious to that or just not caring.

So yes, there's the possibility that there could be negative female-male interactions at conferences, but that's not the discussion we're having. And it's not really a problem that is facing our industry to anywhere near the same scale as "men doing things that make women feel uncomfortable".

Thanks Ruth for having the patience to throw your hat in the ring. Hopefully, eventually, people will get it :)
First reaction, why is Ted missing deadlines?

In software development, the #1 reason why this happens is that the schedules were initially decided not on the basis of what is reasonable, but as the first date that nobody could disprove. After that it is guaranteed that schedules will be missed, and that is used as a club to beat the developers into working faster.

The only thing is that it doesn't work. If you try to motivate software developers with schedule pressure, you get worse software and demotivated developers. This is connected with personalities and type of work. For example a similar approach applied to sales people does improve sales. However research indicates that accurate schedule estimates improves development speed.

Therefore an article that accepts that missed deadlines are primarily the fault of the manager who cannot make the deadlines, without stopping to think about whether the schedule might not be reasonable, is deeply flawed when applied to software.
Windows Blue is how Windows 8 should have been from the start
Terminology doesn't share any code with eterm.
It really seems like all the things browsers do to allow sites to persist data on your computer (cookies, client certificates, localStorage, WebSQL/IndexedDB, the FileSystem storage API, HTML5 Application Caching...) should all be controlled by a single set of preferences/request dialogs. They wouldn't even need to break down the requests by type; it's pretty irrelevant to a user which kind of storage is going on.

Combining this with a "forgiveness is better than permission" principle (which seems to be sorely lacking in web browsers, other than a few just-plain-strange places like alert() dialogs), the best UX might just be a warning bar stating "Example.com has reserved 1KB/5MB of your disk so it can remember its place. [Disallow]"

Disallowing would make the site think it still has a permanent store, but internally replace it with an ephemeral one (FS::TEMPORARY, session cookie, etc.) This also might make browser makers get off their lazy butts and make ephemeral versions of the rest of these mechanisms, to make this work ;)
Men aren't walking around the event floor because they aren't seen as sex objects. That is sexist in itself. But yes it's also discriminatory towards men for not having the same privilege if you want to view it that way instead (which is still sexism).

Wish the other commenter hadn't deleted his post; in it he said that he doesn't like booth babes because they imply that he is dumb enough to be fooled by it, which brings up another great point about the type of people that are in favor of this type of advertising.
Sharing that Facebook page can be a bad idea
It upsets me that we are only able to share sanitized parts of ourselves depending on the situation. I realize that it is a necessity to tone down our ancillary personality traits when among strangers and acquaintances, but setting arbitrary rules and guidelines about expected social behavior seems to be killing a fly with jackhammer -- neither effective nor practical.

I also sympathize with those that feel alienated in environments that should be welcoming to people of all demographics. I would not personally partake in any of the things this person speaks of (with the exception of sexual innuendo and only if I was in known company). The parenthetical may seem hypocritical, but it's part of my personality. For better or for worse, toilet humor is something I find funny. Blame it on my upbringing or my public education, but it's a part of who I am. I cannot turn that off, no matter what the setting is.

Ultimately, if someone is making you uncomfortable or crossing any sort of personal boundaries you've set, it's your responsibility to let that person know. If they ignore and persist, it warrants elevation to a higher authority. We must remember that human interaction is human interaction. There are too many variables involved to write a guide book.

All of that being said, I appreciate posts like Ruth's. Anything that helps me expand my own world view is invaluable and praised as a great asset. If the debacle at PyCon has taught me anything, it was that we all need to sit down and listen to each other.
When I first saw them I thought transparent terminal windows were the coolest thing. Then I tried to use one...

So, as other commenters have pointed out, using blur and/or 80% opacity helps with this. One thing I haven't seen (with this terminal or any other) is to actually outline each character in black (assuming white on black color scheme). That would give some much needed contrast, while still allowing areas with no text to be visible without much or any blurring and perhaps not needing the opacity set so high.
Apple established a lucrative unix based desktop by giving it away for free with cool looking hardware, but only after they made it big with the iphone.

If it wasn't for the iphone Apples "unix based desktop" would still be a blip, and probably a smaller blip than Ubuntu.
I too suggest that Scala is worth learning, coming from Haskell. The integration of OO with FP that Scala achieves is magnificent, and any future mainstream language will be measured against it. I would also argue that Scala, which has been influenced heavily by Haskell, improves on Haskell in some domains, in particular, modularisation and generic programming facilities.

And then there's the JVM.
In Asteroid’s Aftermath, a Sigh of Relief
"If the bill passes with his amendment, police could stop any woman trying to use a women's restroom. She'd have to show proof that she's a woman, and if she doesn't have ID or the gender on her ID doesn't match her gender identity because she's trans"

Wouldn't this require people to carry around ID at all times?
I'm no expert.

You're site is beautifull, but these things come to mind:

- i want to click on the bar (above Reserve Now) - even before i actually noticed it's a timeline (yeah, i thought to see pricing there), it doesn't do anything

- reserve now should be pre-order now (it's the most used slang i suppose)

- It's not entirely obvious what's good about it, until your visitor watches the entire video.. The pics don't make it obvious to.

So, you could make a short video and a long one, but play the short video first or you could add some pics where people see how they "cross" the clothing and pick one out.

- Pricing isn't obvious untill you click through on "Reserve now" (remember: people don't click much :-) )

Hope it helps something, i suppose you are more helpfull with the negative comments then with the positives one.

None the less, i really hope it works out for you!

Edit: the short video could be the 5-year old.. What if you put that video in the front?

Some other idea's to promote:

- Send it as a gift (for people who have their clothes laying arround, eg. gift to your husband)

- Check out specialized forums: http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/laundry/ to promote it.
(At least in the US) weapons and violence are fine in video/audio format, while naked people are not. I'm not sure how much this has to do with Google than it does the regulations imposed by the FCC and social norms.