skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've often said that my platform is called the Internet.

Or as I said here: https://twitter.com/davidu/status/313826471019954176

The risk to sharecropping on another platform just seems too great to outweigh the audience / signup / integration / etc. benefits.
No, I have radiant heat. I recognize that this isn't common in places that actually have weather.
Illegal in which of the ~200 countries that Bitcoin is currently being used in?
Yeah, what you say is true. That would be better than what we have now. Re your comments about smart card readers. You can have smartcard functionality on any machine with a USB port if you use one of these:

https://www.crypto-stick.com/

I received one a couple of weeks ago and it works great. I also have an OpenPGP v2 smart card, a USB smart card reader, and a reader built into my Thinkpad.
Curious what happened here: the Twitter Cards Player options clearly require pre-approval by Twitter for custom cards. Did Ribbon present one thing when going through the approval process and then change the player after the release?
That will keep it down, but never zero (because of that). There's a real value to the illicit transactions. Even if it's merely a way to exchange dollars into something like silk road points, that's worth enough to enough people to keep it at some non zero value.
Hey Edward,

First, thanks for the feedback. We're working in an industry plagued with poor customer service, and we want to differentiate ourselves to those parking and renting with FlightCar by providing a better experience than they can get anywhere else.

We are sorry for failing to deliver a reliable service. Feel free to email me directly, shri@flightcar.com, and let me know how we can fix this. I'll outline below on some things we've already implemented and others that we are working on fixing and will implement soon and what we've done to make sure no one has an experience like your's again.

Car pictures: We started taking pictures of all cars at every handoff. Unfortunately, your car was dropped off a few days before we started this practice, but it's now standard protocol.

Driving record checks: We've had these in place all along. We obtain a driving record from each renter's local dmv to make sure that their driving history doesn't indicate that they're at risk of damaging an owner's vehicle.

Concerning tolls: We're working on a system to manage and capture tolls so that vehicle owners no longer face this problem.

Phone call and wait time: I honestly don't know what happened when you had no response on our phone line. I've heard from other customers that they have had difficulty reaching an operator as well, so we are looking into changing our phone system provider asap. Your experience was definitely the exception. I'm so sorry about that.

Your stuff being placed in the car: The garbage bag situation is utterly unacceptable. This is not the standard practice by any means and we've already spoken to the employee who handled your items and made it clear that what happened will never happen again.

What we are doing now: Rujul, my cofounder, has printed your blog post and handed it to each member of our staff and made sure that all of our staff realizes that what had happened was unacceptable and understands what we need to do to fix it.

Once again, I apologize for your terrible experience and do let me know how we can fix it.

Sincerely,
Shri
I lost my flagging rights without further notice when I thought I was flagging well, so be careful.
I think these massive deflationary cycles will only cease when it becomes the currency of record for more than just exchanges.

But that's my layman's speculation. I have no economic training. Feel free to repudiate.
Again, you have to justify unilateral changes to a multi-billion dollar industry. period. it doesn't matter if it's private as opposed to public.

I'm talking of course in a moral, good for business good will sense and not legal.
Sata (a single disk link tech. for consumer gear) went from 3 to 6 Gbps years ago, before SSDs went mainstem.
> The situation was made worse by the tactics of “wildcat” (unlicensed) taxis who used what some considered to be “underhanded tactics,” such as drastically lowering fares, to get more business.

Lowering fares to get more business? Oh my. What good could possibly come of such a thing.
There are different compliance standards for different types of companies. PCI-DSS, PA-DSS, PTS,ASV, and a couple of others. It's determined by what it is you do with the data.

For instance, my company has software that deals with CC info (PA-DSS), hardware that does (PTS), and we store customer CC data (PCI-DSS).

Make no mistake, PCI compliance is not easy and you have to take it seriously.
BattleStar Galactica + Friends Mashup
one criticism i've heard of bitcoin is of its independence of influence from monetary policy is also its achilles' heel. there's no mechanism to alter supply subjectively and the global supply is fixed to a logistic curve.

a problem arises where when one loses/destroys their bitcoins, there is not enough counter measure to recover the lost supply. it's like burying treasure with a sealed guarantee that the value of it will be gone forever-- an unsoundly characteristic of any currency with high ambition
Yes I found the homepage confusing, and almost clicked away. I think this should be the homepage: http://rappad.co/editor. Just my opinion. I love the site. Nice work.
Not having TCO might lead to a much bigger problem than not hitting a performance target for large numbers of loop iterations. I'd rather have a program that is slightly slower and that works correctly for all input than one that has a built in - but invisible and hard to test for - hard limit.
What is the big deal about professionally managed vacation rentals?
I don't think he's literally saying it would be cheap. He's just saying that the fact that they can get away with not having support means not many people _require_ support, and therefore if support were made available theoretically not many people would take advantage of it.

Which I don't necessarily agree with, but I think the point is worth considering and not "ass-backwards" or completely illogical.
They are required to service all of NYC, but will do almost anything not to.
It's more than performance, they've also picked up must have features like opening up just closed tabs (cmd+shift+t), and cmd+9 to go to last tab, private windows (used to be all of firefox went private), quick updates.
That wasn't a very courteous reply...
Well, according to a quick perusal of the LLVM documentation, the only llvm calling convention that allows TCO on all platforms seems to be fastcc, whose main purpose is to have calls that are a fast as possible, at the cost of not being compatible with the slower, but more common calling conventions of C.
http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#calling-conventions
> "who used what some considered to be “underhanded tactics,” such as drastically lowering fares, to get more business."

Lower fares is not the only consequence of this type of free market. In NYC we've seen a rise of intercity buses competing at cut-rate prices, and one such bus company recently and spectacularly failed every single safety inspection performed on their vehicles. They also have an accident rate several times that of their less price-sensitive consumers (Greyhound, Amtrak, etc).

Free markets often have substantial downsides, it's dishonest to pretend that regulation is strictly driven by parasitic behavior. There are also substantial upsides to commoditization - i.e., gains in efficiency when every consumer does not have to engage in complex analysis of the product on every sale. There is a loss of market confidence when you have to go through a mound of paperwork just to determine which intercity bus line is safe to ride.

When a market is over-regulated, such regulation often have legitimate and still-relevant roots. Those who cry for complete deregulation would be wise to figure them out first. Regulations may run amok, but they very often still sit on top of a legitimate need.
> the US dollar is backed by the full faith and credit of the US Government

Huh? What does this mean? This phrase can be applied to government bond ("The US gov't promises to pay you back") or to FDIC insurance ("The US gov't promises to refund your money if your bank closes"). But it doesn't have any meaning for dollars, unless it were to mean that the gov't would exchange it for gold, which of course is false.
So how did this happen? Did someone at Ribbon not bother to check the TOS? Did they check and just think they wouldn't get caught? The article says Ribbon is trying to contact Twitter to find out what happened, I'd think it would make sense to have somewhat closer relations with anyone who has that much power over your company, so you could find out before they shut you down.
If they lower fares by not getting insurance and not maintaining their vehicles it's probably a bad thing.
Why would you not sell then yesterday, at $4k?
> For those who love TLA's, here's some of our current stack:
AWS, RoR, RDS, EC2, ES, DJ, SASS.

http://www.kickstarter.com/backing-and-hacking/welcome-to-ba...
"We are committing to implementing Mendeley’s existing product development roadmap, and giving the company the space to “let Mendeley be Mendeley.”" - http://elsevierconnect.com/elsevier-welcomes-mendeley/
"Getting better" isn't entirely relevant to this specific case, as the relevant bug was introduced in 5.5.6. Personally, I've had quite a few horrible experiences with mysql replication interacting poorly with various mysql features, and I've lost more time than I'd care to admit trying to figure out workarounds. MySQL wasn't designed with data integrity in mind, and that's had significant influence on its development and ecosystem.

Answering your actual question, no, I've never heard of a big postgres replication failure event, but that's also plausibly explained by postgresql's smaller market share and visibility.
> Definitely HN fodder today.

Maybe, but my own unscientific, vague sense is that I've been seeing multiple bitcoin related submissions to HN every day for quite some time now. At this stage all of the arguments have been hashed and rehashed (ho ho) in the comment threads to the extent that they're getting pretty repetitive and tedious (especially since so many of them are so political).

So, sure, it was marginally interesting a few days ago that bitcoin was up a significant amount so we had multiple articles about that, and then it was up the next day too so we had some articles, and then there were opinion pieces about why it was a bad idea / good idea, none of which really said anything much new, then there were columns about how it was becoming mainstream (which was obvious if you'd been following all the bitcoin startups that also get posted to HN), then today we find it's down an unusual amount. Surely you can see how this is becoming a little grating even for someone who started out with an interest in the topic.
Real-world performance of the Play framework on EC2
Not only planned, but implemented and noted in the readme!
You can subdivide gold and other scarce resources. A gold bar you might trade with is 12.4kg, or at current market rate, about $700,000. But you wouldn't carry that to your local market to buy some toothpaste and a toothbrush, which might be valued at $5. But you can remove a small portion of the gold so that the trade is fair.

Can you give someone one tenth of a bitcoin?
The key difference with corporate "mutinies" and mutinies at sea is that on a ship your mutiny needs to take control of the ship to succeed. Life without the safety of the ship poses significant existential threat. It is often better, and less risky for modern would-be mutineers to follow the example of the traitorous eight and just leave as a group and do their own thing.

Also, a mutiny gathered steam inboard a ship because poor management of ship and resources was life threatening. A lot of folks in a poorly managed company still live a comfortable lifestyle and take home a large paycheck (cough Yahoo! engineers pre-Mayer) so have little incentive to join a mutiny which might jeopardize that.
So I am wondering.

Perhaps Bitcoins volatility which seems to potentially be huge is a great win for people who study economics and bubbles?

I am aware there are several difference between a crypto currency like bitcoin and the rest of the currencies out there but for a layman like me it seems like it's a perfect tool for research?
Desks of 23 Famous Tech People
From our statement on our blog:

"We’ve had discussions with Twitter in the past, and are eager to find a way to work together."
College is what you make of it. I found it to be a great experience and would recommend it to anyone. There are many personal and educational benefits in going.

If however your company is a serious affair I'd go for that. You can always go back to college in the future. And by serious affair I mean you can easily move out of your home in the next 9 months and support yourself.
An Eye for Design
He's right, you are unpleasant. This is just ad hominem at this point.
Yeah, Greenpeace is a VC funded for-profit company. Yeah, good analogy. :-)
Ah ok, I missed that, thanks for pointing it out.
Maybe SugarSync at this point.
In general secretaries have way more power than one would normally think.
Correction, taxis are required to take you to "any destination in NYC, Westchester, Nassau, or Newark Airport;"

Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/passenger/taxicab_rights.sh...
Yep: http://www.polygon.com/2013/4/10/4209766/lucasarts-employees...
I'm not calling anybody an idiot, and Alan Kay isn't either. You are the only one calling people idiots here I'm afraid.

The fact that some things stood the test of time has no predictive value. It's just confirmation bias. There are plenty of things that existed for far more than 50 years that did not stand the test of time. The horse cart, the abacus, and the spear for example. I believe that as IDEs and other programming tools become more sophisticated, it starts to make more and more sense for them to work directly on abstract syntax trees rather than plain text strings. But this is another discussion.

I'm well aware that the W3C has not have original started the standards (including the original HTML), but it's how they evolve, accumulate cruft, and it's how we get stuck with them. Standardization can only ever accumulate complexity on the web. Things cannot easily, or at all, be removed. With an organic model, as soon as things fall out of use they disappear from consideration.

Perhaps you can implement HTTP and HTML 1.0 in a few days if you are a hero programmer. I'm not sure what your point is. We are living in 2013 not 1989.

Yes, the client can't do as much high level optimization, and that's a good thing. That kind of optimization belongs be at the library level, not at the client level (and certainly not duplicated several times for every different browser vendor each with a slightly different and inconsistent implementation).

I agree that markup will be transmitted in 100 years, and I'm pretty sure so does Alan Kay. He, like I do, simply believes that the building blocks should be inverted. The thing that interprets the markup doesn't belong hard coded in the client. The client should simply be universal (i.e. Turing complete) and the thing that interprets and renders the markup should be built on top of that.

I agree that in 100 years we can still separate text into paragraphs and make things bold, but there are plenty of things that let you do that which are not HTML, and neither is the main point of HTML separating text into paragraphs and making things bold (certainly not in 2013). So this is no reason why HTML will exist in 100 years.
nitpicking: the extension of pragmatic is a subset of the extension of opinionated. The word pragmatic is a hyponym of opinionated.
Show HN: MindCipher – Challenge yourself
Yes, Bitcoin is divisible down to extremely small fractions.
> There is no reasonable expectation of privacy when it comes to private carriers like FedEx or UPS.

Absent an expectation of privacy, the government is entitled to search whatever and whenever it pleases. Are you suggesting there is court precedent establishing the government does not require a warrant to search a box being delivered by UPS?
Well, there are a couple compelling points about Rust:

- deterministic memory management

- actual generics. :P

- an advanced type system (vs. java/c++)

- design choices taken towards efficiency

- default-immutable memory
Yes. Bitcoin division is dramatically simpler and more precise than that of any physical material.
Taxi drivers are allowed to get medallions. But since the supply is so low, they usually cost a few hundred thousand dollars. So people rent instead.

Fixing that by outlawing medallion-rental is like trying to make housing costs cheaper by outlawing apartments. A much better solution would be to eliminate medallions, which could be done without removing the licensing system filter.
Would it be a lot of work to get that data for top100 and top1000?

If it holds there too that would be absolutely awesome.
JIRA Dev Team Doesn't Use JIRA?
Dude, at least be reasonable with your response.

True, college is not for everyone. But this kid is posting a question that could potentially impact the rest of his life. Is this really the level-headed advice he should hear:

"If you listen to your parents and waste four or five years at college you will be financially worse off and regret it. Your parents care about you and think they are giving you good advice but they are not."

To be honest, that's shit. It's ignorant, and no better than calling everyone without degrees a bum.

What should be said is pretty much what his parents are hinting at. Go to college for security, unless you have something really special lined up. Trust me, it is very very hard to get a good job without a degree (and still hard to get a good job with one). You can still have plenty of time to work on side projects while in school. You can always go to school later, but it never gets any easier.

Edit: man, there is just so much to be said after re-reading all this. And each time I disagree with you more. The fact you are so absolute, that fact that you are so wrong...

Look 23 is not too late for anything. The world moves fast now, but evolution in a person occurs much longer than ever before. You change for a long time. It's not capped by 28.

Do whatever you want for your kids, but I suggest keep a close-minded idea like that to yourself. You don't have to embrace college as the end all, but do realize the world we are living in.
New iPad? Leaked photos point to slimmer build
Sure: stock Postgres doesn't have multi-master capability at all. Postgres-XC does (http://postgres-xc.sourceforge.net/), but I didn't know about that when I finally decided to move from a mix of MySQL and Postgres to MySQL only.
That seems more like a failure with "regulating" organized crime than a call for regulating taxi cabs.
Testing is just one layer or defense against poor quality.
Why would you say that it would lead to market failure? It would have led to more cabs, lower fares, and more jobs (albeit at lower wages).

BTW - if it wasn't clear, I didn't write that sentence. I copied and pasted it from the nyc.gov site I linked. I'll edit my post to make it more clear. But I think it important that the regulators themselves are being honest about why the regulations came to be.
Our team in finishing a project to refactor a custom form builder in our app (similar to WuFoo) and our struggles sound very similar. We are adding plugins like Backbone Relational to fight with issues, and fighting issues with the plugins... And in fact, our tech lead has actually forked Backbone (still unsure as to the exact reason). At any rate, we have shattered (what used to be) a ~1,000 line jQuery/JavaScript file into nearly 130 individual fragments of models, views, collections, templates, and helpers. Throw RequireJS into the mix... We can't be Doing It Right (TM), can we? Or are we, and I just don't get it?

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I think getting a mentor can be very helpful. A friend learned by designing a perspective of skewmorphic design (imitating real things).
>I don't see how the medallion itself (a permit issued by the government)

Well... now you're playing word games. A medallion, as commonly understood, is a very specific type of government-issued permit, with special properties (like being transferable and severely limited in supply).
The Mentorship Checklist: 9 questions for your potential employer
MindCipher is a side project I've been working on with a couple friends. We're a bunch of geeks and love solving puzzles, so we built MindCipher to aggregate some of the world's greatest mental challenges.

We currently have over 200 users and we're actively iterating based on their suggestions.

Feedback is welcome!
fuck rap, reclaim hip hop ^^
The Tech Community's Integrity Challenged Response to Lulu
no, because throwing electrons at turds doesn't generate currency. in contrast, throwing electrons at a chip does generate bitcoins. that's the relationship being alluded to: there's the possibility of arbitrage between electricity (compute cycles) and currency.
They could also add their own calling convention to LLVM to support what they want like GHC and HiPE have done.
Stanford Team Creates Transparent Brain
>Jezebel and Slate's XX Factor are definitely prominent within the feminist blogosphere (if there is such a thing).

You just didn't understand what I said, did you? Re-read my comment above.
Google should auction off customer support, like it does AdWords.

Hire as many support staff per product as Google deems profitable. When submitting a support request, I indicate how much I'm willing to pay to receive an answer. The highest bids get answers, the rest don't (or get slower answers depending on request volume and difficulty).
Better Hiring? LinkedIn Has an Algorithm for That
Documentation of the Omegle Protocol
The pain is that Backend developers are expensive, and there are not a lot of good ones. Most of the good backend developers are already hired in big companies. Creating Backend functionality is not just about putting your webservices up into AWS and that is it. There is a lot of capacity planning, Security concerns, scalability concerns, etc. Things that are usually covered by more than 1 person.

Additionally not all Backend as a Service have that extreme lock-in. In our case (iKnode) you build your backend using pure C# code, which is your and you can take with you. Creating Web Services out of the code you put in our servers is plain and simple.
Probably, but I can guarantee you that the vast majority don't make a lot of money.
>> In the postal system, your message is generally encapsulated in a tamper-evident envelope...

Those are all mechanisms, not legal protections. All could be bypassed by a determined person.

In both email and physical mail, someone else can secretly read your mail if they try hard enough. In both, you expect them not to. In both, we have the same question: should the government need a warrant to violate that expectation?

I can plant a secret microphone in your house. That doesn't mean I have a right to.
You might check out SaaSy.com. It's the all-in-one option for recurring global transactions which enables developers to avoid having to develop subscription management or e-commerce functionality separately.
what it means is you changed one monopoly for another.
Absolutely. Some of the biggest failures in security is lack of ease of use by and large, in addition to ignorance. I think most people are willing to do the proper thing, but they'll actually do it only if it's easy.
Mutual TCO is really uncommon for what it's worth. Of you need it that bad a trampoline should suffice
>After the customer leaves the car, there is no record of their behavior in the taxi.

Really? I haven't looked hard for them in NYC Yellow Cabs, but every livery car I've hired has had a security camera inside.