skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sad to see the discussion is more about "what'll get you customers" instead of "what does it mean to do business ethically."

Capitalism, fine. Competitiveness, fine. Postmark is not a company afraid of customers or competition. But they believe in competing in a classy, ethical way. Most importantly, their competitive advantages are based on facts, things they can control, things their competitors could control but don't.

How can anyone disagree with that?

But sure, let's look at it from a ruthless, ethics-free standpoint:

What if you do run attack ads, what if you do kick the competitor when they have a freak event that they did not cause and could not have prevented -- an enormous DDoSing campaign by an organized group -- and which could happen to you, too?

What if you lure customers away with these attack ads?

What will those customers do when you have a freak event?

No service has perfect uptime. DDoSing can happen to anyone.

So even if you have the ethics of a rutabaga, all you get for your efforts are customers which do not tolerate the occasional freak event. What do you think they're going to do when you have something you have no control over?

Your marketing will have created the results that you deserve.

Business doesn't exist in a vacuum. You do not "win customers for life." Customers are not all equal (far from it). This is a long game. Being classy, being honest, is the best way to create a business you -- and your customers -- can live with for a long time.
Agree.

BTW, the Ubuntu HUD does the same for any set of menus in a compatible application.

Hit Alt key, access all the menu commands.
You mean the smart phone they would use use for direction and communication while going out looking for prospective clients, and so they don't need a fixed Internet connection like cable?

And the big screen could easily double as a second monitor for doing work on a laptop.
Always load index.html, give up the idea that "I'm already on the server, I should go ahead and render here", you'll never win trying to do that.
The issue I have with this is that technology disruptions came in the form of moving manual labor from farms to factories.

The service wave of disruptions moved manual labor to communications labor.

This wave of disruption is moving both of these to intellectual labor. Do I think that we have vast resources of unexploited intellectual labor? Yes. The issue is that the more people I meet the more I begin to believe the key to intellectual success is intellectual culture. Unfortunately, I don't think we have a very intellectual culture and culture changes slowly -- far slower than technology.
I'm going to need far more details before I sign up and give away any S3 access thanks very much.
I am glad to see I'm not the only woman with this opinion.

Frankly, I think mr-hank should file criminal charges, under VAWA section 2261A on stalking, which states that an individual is guilty of stalking if, with intent to harass or intimidate another person, uses the mail, any interactive computer service or electronic communication service or electronic communication system of interstate commerce, or any other facility of interstate or foreign commerce to engage in a course of conduct that causes, attempts to cause, or would be reasonably expected to cause substantial emotional distress to that person.

I think it can be reasonably stated that public shaming is intended to cause emotional distress, and mr-hank suffered damages (job loss) as a result, affecting not just himself but the welfare of his family.

With the addition of the much-touted nondiscrimination clause, the law should apply equally to his situation as it would to a woman under similar circumstances.
Yes, I understand that. It was a blanket statement about freedom of speech, not necessarily a direct correlation between the situation and freedom of speech.
Typo on lower right of front page:

"Build on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk" should be "Built on"

Also:

"All HTML interfcae is 100% customizable." should be "Our HTML interface is 100% customizable."
Thank you Chris.
If GitLab security were to be perfect, then this change would not affect security in any which way.

However, if the .ssh/authorized_keys file were to be written erroneously, it is possible that this change may increase the likelihood of receiving a shell with the privileges of the git user and thus being able to affect repositories. However, it should not be possible on a system otherwise secured for such a user to obtain access to the rest of they system.
Toronto's Koge Vitamins Chooses Extreme Startups Over TechStars
As a blind individual in America I’m an example of someone on the disability bubble. What allowed me to avoid going on disability was college. By being blind I got some additional financial help to get through college. Even though I could have probably gotten full disability it made a lot more sense for me to get a degree and a programming job. I never considered going the disability rout since I easily make three times what I would have on disability and expect that gap to grow wider as I become more experience. If college hadn’t been an option for me I could easily see myself going on disability. I can’t think of a lot of jobs I could do that wouldn’t have required a college degree since most physical labor is not an option for me. Even with the help I got from the government with college I’ll still wind up being a plus on the governments balance sheet since I don’t receive any disability payments now that I work full time and pay taxes. Unfortunately from reading the story most people don’t have the opportunities I did, and even if they do some refuse to take advantage of them. While I think we should expand opportunities for education and job training there’s no way to force people to take advantage of them.
I wonder if your lack of ability to comprehend what you are reading would qualify as a disability.
I'm waiting for a C/C++ version, to run it on, say, 512MB memory efficiently.

ruby, java, python, php are just too fat.
Your argument notwithstanding but there is no proof, or solid precedence, of a paid service surviving just because it is a paid service.

Google did not say (at least not publicly) that they're cutting GR because the service wasn't generating revenue.
I don't know if it is an English word but it's part of the French language as "to have a chill" or I don't know the correct expression/word in English :)
You will get a Sony rootkit fiasco this time around as well.

The HTML DRM (EME) is nothing but a plugin API. The plugin is something like Widevines DRM, called a CDM, (already in use on chromebooks) that browsers will no install on your machine without your consent.

The working of the CDM/DRM itself is not specified in any way. Repeated request at specification have repeatedly been rebuffed and ridiculed by Google, Netflix and Microsoft.
I had no idea this sort of disability-gaming was occurring

a) I did think that people generally knew that disability claims go up during periods of economic dislocation.

b) I wouldn't call it 'gaming'. Toy example: Economy starts at equilibrium A where getting a job takes difficulty A. The economy slows down so now getting a job takes difficulty A + 10. It's obvious to state that the people who were at the margin, that could get a job at difficulty A but can't get a job a difficultly A + 10, will now be more likely to consider other options (including disability).

I'm sure there will be a bunch of comments to the effect that these people are malingerers but to me it's not black and white like that. IMO, it's unremarkable that a changed equilibrium is going to result in more disability claims.

Policywise, I think Minsky had some good ideas. The short form was limit transfer payments (i.e. payments where the recipient does nothing) and replace that with the government as employer of last resort.
> I feel like Dart's emphasis on a fast but chrome-only vm has hindered it's adoption.

Dart's VM isn't Chrome-only, its open source, and available both standalone and bundled into Chromium.

> However, I think the initial community reaction would have been more positive if Dart was positioned first as a language that compiled to js, with the added benefit that it runs significantly faster on Chrome.

Reaction might have been more positive in the short run if it was sold as a on-top-of-JS language rather than part of a long-term plan to build something to replace (or complement) JS as a language for which browsers would have a a built-in, language-specific VM. However, I think that even if initial reaction might have been better with such a response, Google clearly did the right thing by being up front about their vision.
> If you want some of that growth, it seems logical you need to allow freedom.

Singapore.
I think you're in the minority, there. People notice the numbers first, and the lower the number the better.
referrals to boost capacity...
I think you meant to say "deprived."

But yeah, to the extent that various written and unwritten codes of conduct would try to have us pretend to be perpetually "nice" and asexual to each other in nearly all public contexts, this broadness is is utterly depraved.
and advocating an effective blacklist of companies that evangelize on the subject of reliability

Who did that, and what does it have to do with this discussion?

There really isn't any kind of stretch to call this anti-competitive.

I think you're seeing something that isn't there. We'll probably just have to "agree to disagree" on this point.
It was an issue we discussed quite a bit when working on Bucketio. If you're S3 savvy, we recommend that you create a limited user and give it access to JUST the bucket you want us using. If you're not, then you can provide your Master keys and the system does the setup for you. We create a limited user with access to a single bucket we create, set the CORS needed for uploading, then we forget your master keys and connect using the new user ONLY.
The social safety net and creative destruction discussion is interesting.

However, I'm interested from a design perspective. Does anyone know if this was built by the "apps team" at NPR? IMO, it's very well done.

More from the NPR "apps team."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279440

http://blog.apps.npr.org/2013/02/14/app-template-redux.html
But you're missing an important point. "Quality locally produced goods" are very expensive. I can get a "trashy" piece of furniture from IKEA for just a few hundred bucks. That same piece of furniture, produced by a local artisan, would cost me thousands. Most people don't buy cheap furniture because they choose to, they do it because I have to.

As the population grows, more people buy more stuff. Local woodworkers and cabinet makers cannot possibly fulfill demand using locally sourced materials and hand tools. If everyone is to get chairs and tables and cabinets, production must be automated. Once automated, production can scale, which usually reduces both quality and cost. Instead of local wood, wood is imported and turned into particle board because its dimensions make automation easier. But now a nightstand can be turned out in less than an hour, where a traditional artisan might spend a week or more, driving up labor costs.

In other words, it isn't that people need to "rethink" what's valuable. They have already done the thinking, and they value more affordable, lower quality goods over limited, expensive ones. And I don't blame them.
These days a smartphone and big screen television cost less than $200 each. Those are no longer extravagant expenses. If someone works only 10 hours a week they should be able to afford small luxuries. The problem I see is that your benefits get cut when you start working. Our society incentivizes idleness and punishes people who would otherwise be willing to be partially productive.
Sure, we understand, it's part of what we're trying to get figured out at this early stage. Can you let us know what you'd be interested in knowing and we'll work to provide more info?
It is not hyperbole. EME is a plugin API, and the plugin is not specified, and that is what the DRM is. It is inevitable this will result in another rootkit fiasco.

But worse than that, the working of the DRM (called a CDM) will also sacrifice your privacy on the web, because it can inevitably act like a "supercookie" over which you will have no control.
Yeah, you have to be very careful with what you assume about version numbers. Node.js is v0.10 which strikes me as overly-cautious version numbering. And Gitlab is... v5?!
Based on the glee that a significant proportion of Americans seem to derive from cutting social safety nets, that appears to be exactly the path we seem to be heading down.
How is that different from what the Soviet Union tried? How do you keep from falling in the same traps that doomed it? I fail to see how, once the state has that much economic control, it will be held in check from taking more.

That said, there is a real problem here with unemployable people and it's only going to get worse. It's no wonder no politicians want to talk about it. It can't be summed up in a ten-second blurb.
Welcome to the wonderful world of currency exchange risk! This is a problem common to international business acquisitions, wherein changing exchange rates usually changes the effective purchase/sales price (depending on your POV). For this reason, acquisition agreements fix the price as of a certain date, and the parties bear the risk of loss, or the fortune of gain, arising from changes to the exchange rate after the deal is signed but before payment is effectuated.
AMA: The campaigners fighting for the right to unlock/repair/modify cell phones
But what happens when Ikea sells goods of the same, or superior quality, than those "quality locally produced goods"? In fact, for many of the goods we buy, a lot of the "quality" we perceive from "locally-produced" is a figment of our imagination, or at least biased by taste.

Sure, the coffee table you paid $30 for at Wal-Mart is almost certainly inferior in every way but one (price!) to something you'd find yourself paying $400 (or $4000) for at [locally-produced furniture company]. But you could probably spend $200 and get something made in China or Vietnam that is just as good as anything you could buy locally-produced.
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> Apple is incredibly popular among Chinese international university students, but the first thing everyone does when they get a new Macbook is to install bootcamp and never boot into OSX again.

Is Chinese support in Windows dramatically better than in OS X? I found the level of stylus support in Windows to be head and shoulders higher in quality than Apple's. Perhaps it is the same with languages.
Show HN: Firebus -- See every bus in San Francisco
Rdio is a great example as they currently don't use any form of DRM (if you use the Chrome UA and don't have flash player installed). So I could download songs from Rdio and save them away, but I've never bothered because I want to listen from wherever I am -- the value of the service isn't just having a bunch of music files, but all the other stuff too.

Netflix is probably similar (though I personally use it only infrequently) they provide a huge amount of value via recommendations and having a client on every device (versus downloading the stream, setting up some kind of local server to watch movies on my iPad/TV/whatever, only it'll have a clunkier interface, no recommendations, bad metadata, etc).

I guess what I'm saying is that these guys should all be able to keep people honest by offering the best experience -- a better experience than the illegal alternative.

As an aside: I work on browsers and I really don't like the idea of having to sign agreements and ship binary modules to have a "working" browser. Chrome started shipping widevine a while ago, though I'm not sure where that gets used. It's a bad road which locks out the little guy (but pragmatically that's the way things go...).
I would highly encourage you to go next year if you're on the fence. This was my first PyCon and it was phenomenal.
Why we make Picturelife
Nice write-up from Charles the CEO about why we started Picturelife and where we plan to take it in the future. We'd also love to work with you on making it a service that takes care of all your picture and video backup needs. Let us know if you have feedback about the service or are interested in working with us!
Thanks, never heard of a "bitmapped vector trie" before. I'll have to look it up.
Globetrotting and climate change
Effects of background white noise on memory performance
Then you have a lot of form data including passwords in your poor-manDB
Pinode: Raspberry Pi in the Cloud
The difficulty auto-adjusts to keep supply constant, so market forces will drive the cost of mining a bitcoin to just below the value of a bitcoin. Hence, ASICs should have no major long-term effect on the difficulty of taking over the network.

Arguably they'll even make it a bit harder since you'd need specialized hardware, and couldn't just buy up a bunch of GPU EC2 instances on a whim and take over the bitcoin network.
Sorry 'illegal' in the sense of being contrary to the requirements of the crypto protocol, in the same way that you can have the concept of an 'illegal operation' in a CPU ISA.
Cash, lots of cash!
How are usernames any different? You're saying identity is transient. This is true of every sort of identity except perhaps your soul. Regardless email addresses are more stable and unique than usernames. In fact they are just a username plus a domain that happens to have the ability to be routed messages in a standard way.

Of course you should be able to change the email on an account. Usernames can also be changed and are far from canonical. Your point about emails is not invalid, it's just not addressed by usernames, and usernames are actually inferior in that respect.
Ask HN: What tools do you use for mobile apps design?
I'm sure every designer has its weapon of choice but what is it in your case? If you're working with an app developer what are the deliverables? How do you manage revisions?

I know, there are a lot of questions but I would really appreciate your feedback!
Some analogies can only be taken so far
Should've coded the whole thing in Makumba and this would've never happened!!one
Not really, you can always disable that option in the browser or use a browser that doesn't implement that part of the spec.
Do you have any interest in providing a guide for your users to do that themselves? Obviously they'd have to trust you to some degree to follow your guide and assume you're not tricking them. I'm generally not a very paranoid person, but in this case I have a couple EC2 servers running for clients that would be a bitch to fix if someone messed with them.
> If "better" means more compatible with existing apps, more stable, easier to use, more standard... not sure you can make an argument for that. Maybe in a few years when the desktop is just a portal for web apps.

WINE has made some big strides. If the Chinese government properly got behind it, a properly outfitted Ubuntu with really well integrated WINE might be a defacto Windows replacement in China.
I'm referring to the fact that they have 6 adapters, as listed on this page: http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_mac/mac_accessori.... They don't really need 6, do they?
Indeed. This is an example of a sane and healthy competition between two giants (or C/C++/ObjC oligarchs :D) that ends up benefiting the end consumer the most.

I wish it worked the same way in all other sectors. The open source part is probably what makes it easier to stay "pure" in spirit, i.e. no under-the-counter fixing, no bullshit.
They aren't. You pay taxes in the currency of whatever nation you owe taxes to. This will necessitate converting bitcoin-denominated transactions to that local currency. (The timing of when the bitcoin transactions may be converted varies from country to country.)

Failure to report and pay taxes on bitcoin-denominated transactions is income tax evasion. One consequence of this is that your tax years never "close," so the IRS has until the end of time (or practically speaking, your death) to audit you and go after the unpaid taxes (in contrast to the normal 3 and 6 year periods for IRS audits).
Have they been sitting on this story? In our hour of triumph! At least they didn't wait until the Crimson beat Arizona.

Seriously though, NAQT might consider not depending on the honor system for access to the questions that are the basis of their entire competition. This ain't Ultimate Frisbee.
I used to be too, but doesn't any more. :(
With a guaranteed income defined not in dollars but in goods, the government could automate (much of) the welfare of these people. "You get 10 loaves of bread, 3 cheese, and 1 elective per month." for example.

Then people wouldnt complain about the big screen tvs, etc. that they think the poor spend the welfare money on.
-fsanitize=thread and -fsanitize=address !!!! :D
Why Kevin Lynch's Move to Apple Won't Change Anything
Great idea. I'll take some screenshots and make a guide.
Wow, full of great advice. The biggest one for me is: acknowledge applicants. I've hired and know what a hassle it can be, but use a system, and respond to everyone. Set deadlines, and if you miss them, acknowledge that. Look, this is a possible team member--why would they believe you'll treat them with respect when they are employees if you don't treat them with respect when they aren't?

Basically, it's the golden rule. It's not hard!
Oh this fills me with a mix of nostalgia and dread. The first time I saw a 'flat' instruction set such as MIPS and ARM, with a large file of registers that are treated the same, was really refreshing.
That's definitely an option. Sometimes, though, the TOS or just general policy blocks that. Part of the reason to go with a "business" account with static IP is to tell your ISP that "hey, I'm not kidding, I want to serve stuff here.".
Well what I mean is I believe Apple will start rejecting apps at the review stage if they see its built with armv6. (Of course it's just my guess).
But the tit-for-tat is totally relevant! At least for things happening in the present day. Most people's countries are doing things you disagree with: but within a country, even if you oppose someone doing something, you can usually sympathize with the rationale behind it. When the media deflects attention to those evil people with different color skin across the ocean, it's very easy to simplify things.

Case in point: those escaped North Koreans weren't merely refugees but defecting soldiers who had shot their superior officer. Do you think China liked being in that situation? You can either cause a major international row with a nuclear-equipped rabid dog who for historical reasons is sitting a couple hundred miles away from your capital, or you can send a rebellious military unit back for certain execution.

What would you have done? And let's make this sharper: what would your country's military bureaucracy have done?

Why not let people who have actual local knowledge and care about changing things focus on what local people's actual priorities are and the real pain points for human wellbeing?