skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points, roel. I want to say something about my "logic."
I compared two similar scenarios. You're comparing industrial sabotage to tagging a wall. It's not fair to say that because this comparison fails, my logic is wrong is it? You set it up purposefully to fail. It's kind of straw-man-ish.

Is stealing a wallet with $10.00 worse than wiring $10.00 from someone else's account? I could easily argue yes in some circumstances. If you have your wallet stolen by someone, there's a much greater chance that you will come to physical harm. Getting $10.00 stolen from your PayPal account does not afford you this same risk. I believe that's pretty fair to say. Now, seeing as one has the potential to cause financial and physical harm and the other only has the potential to cause financial distress, should both crimes be treated the same? Should both perpetrators be punished with the same sentence if convicted?

That being said, industrial espionage is a serious thing, and at that point the distinction between a "cyber-crime" and a "real-world crime" begins to diminish.

My logic still holds up, doesn't it? Am I still missing something here?
Panic can be dangerous as well. A halon dump can asphyxiate someone who doesn't reach the oxygen mask or an exit in time.

Dropping a whole server room without seeing any smoke or fire is silly. Do you pull a fire alarm if someone smokes a cigarette indoors?
A "phone" these days is usually, more or less, a small box with one glowy side. Yet these self-same devices, to represent "phone", use the silhouette of the handset from an old Bell Telephone landline model, thirty years after those phones went out of fashion. To even the younger generation, that shape means "phone", even if it doesn't look like a phone.

Similarly, the D-pad from a NES controller -- or worse, an Atari 2600 joystick -- is often used to represent or signify "video games".

"Home" is based on tract housing from the 1950s; yet even if home to you is an apartment, condo unit, palace, or boat, that icon still means "home".

There's another example. I just recently bought a Moleskine with an abstract graphic image of an audiocassette on it. There's no real reason for this; it's very hipster. It's sort of "celebrating the audiocassette" because to an entire generation of people, the cassette -- and its shape -- meant music (especially music on the go, like in a Walkman). Youngsters connect to it too, in a "retro" way. The same will be true of the floppy disk icon. No one uses it now, but it was ubiquitous that -- like the audiocassette or the distinctively shaped horn of a Victrola phonograph -- its shape has become semi-permanently associated in our culture with its intended use.
A "bit slower" is being generous. And asm.js doesn't really represent how a general purpose web application will perform, like a Gmail, it represents mostly how a WebGL targeted cross-compiled game can perform.

The same overselling that happened with Java is happening again, don't worry, a magical JIT is right around the corner that will come within spitting distance of native C. This time it'll be different. When TraceMonkey was announced, there was a lot of excitement about how Tracing JITs were going to rock C level performance.

Are we really thinking that Javascript's VM semantics are going to last for decades? That 30 years from now we'll still be stuck with the same JS, just better VMs?

IMHO, Sooner or later we're going to have to admit that a language designed in 10 days is stretched to its limit and as amazing as the JITs and hacks like asm.js are, eventually we'll need to get together and design the next generation.
I thought HN was above the whole, "Yes I did/No you didn't" behavior.
> TechCrunch has lost a lot of its Silicon Valley, with the tech blog scene proliferating since.

How am I meant to parse the first part of this sentence, "TechCrunch has lost a lot of its Silicon Valley"?

(I mean I get that it's trying to convey that TechCrunch no longer has the kind of grip it once had on SV tech press, but does this clause itself actually make sense?)
It's competitively priced compared to computers which are delivered with Windows and thus have that price included.
How sad. I guess I'll be buying one of the $200 IR-Blue.
Wrong graph. You need to look at the volume of transactions, not at the number of transactions:

http://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-u...

As you can see, the graph is similar to the market price.
I believe a lot of Companies would get angry when they realize their candidate did not get H1B. #NeedImmigrationReform
Ask HN: Features you miss
I would like you to share features you feel are missing in apps you use everyday. I mean the ones that you feel that are crucial.

This is intended to be a way to share knowledge and maybe gather ideas for future projects from HN folks.
"History" might be the keyword here as long as we remember that in many eastern cultures time, as well as writing, flows from right to left compared to the western left-to-right style. This removes the arrow option, I guess, if we want to keep the symbolism from being bound to specific set of cultures.
But like what you're getting at, we already have concepts like "branch" and "undo" and "version history" and "publish" for other uses of the save button and most of those already have their own, more intuitive icons. So why not do away with "save" as something that has to be done manually and emphasize those other actions with their own buttons.
The title should be "How to shoehorn a simile".

Using photoshop is like carrying water with a bucket. You've got to decide 'rush' or 'macro'. Maybe it's not important that you get all that water to the destination and losing slop over the side in a poorer quality carry is fine. Other times you'll need that bucket to arrive dry with a higher quality carry - you might be carrying over carpet, for example.

Before you start your carry you go through the starting steps to ensure a clean, empty bucket - checking that there's no holes, that the handle isn't loose or broken, that it's clean and doesn't contain anything from a different carry.

A good water bucket carrier has higher APM than a poor carrier, knowing how best to manipulate the bucket in the well and developing appropriate muscles for filling and carrying. The best water carriers can carry a bucket in each hand!

There is no best bucket - pick one to suit the task at hand. Wood is heavier, but more beautiful, a relic of a bygone era, and is the preferable material for use in specialised cases like saunas. Metal is sturdy and less prone to failure - easier to fill than a plastic if you're using a deep well as it won't float as easily. Plastic is light, cheap, and plentiful, which may be all you need, plus it is more flexible.

And of course, carrying water is a task best suited for collaboration. You get to socialise, and it goes faster if everyone pitches in.
God damn it, this screws me over pretty bad. Anyone else?
He means that if they set cookies to only apply to the root, then you will have to log in to gist.github.com and github.com separately. Taking access away from the un-trusted code also means taking it away from some trusted code.
> there are many more Bitcoin-accepting vendors who make sales without using BitPay

Who have independent increases. If I accept bitcoins and I didn't see an increase in transactions, that decreases the total transaction volume change.

You can't just look at one particular vendor and apply their results to the aggregate.

And BitPay's numbers are odd, they reported an average transaction size of 10 bitcoins, that seems awfully large.
The fact is that your average internet user is conditioned to think the beveled elements are clickable. Whether or not that ought to be the case is an utterly useless discussion for your 905% of jQuery theme users, people who want to just build a website quickly.
App should just save automatically.

Usually when people use save, they actually want to take an action. (ie: exporting the file somewhere, sending it to someone, etc.)

This thread should focus on identifying those actions and finding more universal ways to make them ubiquitous.

What if there was a universal "send this" or "invite someone to collaborate" button?
An E-book about the Bible's historical accuracy
I'm not sure why that second sentence is there, it doesn't really make much sense. The rest of the point is valid, especially regarding money laundering.
How is that inconsistent with any of my advice? The fastest way to get someone out the door cleanly is to offer a generous severance package.

Culture fit is something you should have selected against when hiring them in the first place.
> There probably needs to be a way to address the situation where someone knows the data they are accessing ought to be restricted, but your analogy throws away an awful lot of the context that is important to that discussion.

Perhaps, but IMO it's really the core moral question.

But you are right that context is important, which is why these debates go so often into what "reasonable" persons would do.

So with weev, for instance, I think a "reasonable" person could probably say that they're not really supposed to have access to so much personal data, and that they probably shouldn't have gone way the hell out of their way to get 114,000 email addresses when 4 orders of magnitude less would have sufficed to prove the vulnerability.

Now, do I think that email addresses of any kind warrant 41 months in prison? Absolutely not! But I also don't see how it's a stretch to consider that weev stepped beyond the bounds of reasonable behavior.
I've been a bitcoin supporter. But there is a twinge in me that remembers government, properly set up, can often protect the weak from the strong. Extremely wealthy corporations and individuals moving around anonymous money would make it impossible to tax and impossible to know where political contributions were coming from. I don't know the answer-- I flip flop back and forth between total openness for everyone and total secrecy for everyone.
It really depends on what facet of business you think she'd be interested in.

To be honest I think better than any specific business resource out there would be to just get her on the path to building the core skills she'll use later on in life. She's already got that started with her vending business which is great. I think pushing her towards taking on some school activities may be great too. Things where she can help organize events and fundraisers and really contribute to a group.

As for my favorite books on business I would suggest for a 13 year old:

"Death by Meeting" The author describes a fictional company that is terrible at conducting meetings until the main character comes and helps address the issues. I know she's not really running meetings at the moment so this may be of less use to her until she has others working along side her. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0787968056

I also agree that "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is an excellent book. I grew up with social anxiety disorder and it was one of the books that really broke me out of my shell and gave me the confidence to really push past it. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0671723650

Another book I found pretty interesting was "Win the Crowd." While not a 'business' book, per se, it goes into how to really grab your audience's attention and hold it.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060742054

Lastly "Secrets of Powers Negotiating" is an interesting book I'd suggest she take a look at. There are endless applications to negotiation in business from sales to even negotiating your first salary.
http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Power-Negotiating-15th-Anniver...

Just some ideas -- hope it helps!
Not everyone who's a fan of these games now was around to play them then.

I think it has more to do with the 'gamer' demographic growing larger. In my experience, niche stuff often has more emotion behind it, evident even when it's not your niche and not your emotion. Modern 'indie' games, which are often more focused than 'mainstream' fare, have something of the same feel about them.
I didn't notice such an option - so the UI doesn't lead to that.

But it was really hard to read due to the movement.
same here.. my OPT gets over in a few months.. this may screw me over completely and force me to go back to native country. Dreams in Silicon Valley burnt due to extremely limited cap.
Thanks for shedding some light onto your thought process about this. I can definitely understand it a bit better now.

I guess I feel differently when you say "if you're not paying us for the service", since I pay ~$50/mo in addons through Heroku, of which which I'm sure you must take a cut. So I am in fact paying you, just not in the form of dynos.

Perhaps this could be a loophole to the current system?
Interesting, I've found the opposite ;)

With MaxCDN in the loop, we had random failures from various areas, and their support was rather anemic. Their UI had bugs which made our zones uneditable, and the whole experience was slightly better than nothing.

I've replaced it with a Ramdisk cache for my assets, served out of nginx, and it performs -dramatically- better.

Granted, that won't be possible for all workloads, but for me, it was a dramatic difference.
Yep, these are all issues and it's just a starting place, I don't plan on the current design to stay the same very long. Just wanted to get this released. I'll keep your comments in mind for when I update it later.
There is a video [1] of it walking on its own. I suspect they have the cables because it was leaning over, twisting, squatting, etc and they probably want to assist with balance.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mclbVTIYG8E
"which, for many of its libertarian-anarchist advocates, is the whole idea"

The politics the community built around is for me the only reason why it sucks right now, the idea is interesting and it can certainly have some use. Selling all that I have.

TL;DR: Well, the link speaks for itself: http://imgur.com/r/cringepics/gkLJswu

EDIT: Ultimately what I hate about it is that the almost anywhere you go do discuss it there's this tribal mentality of believers vs. deniers. What about those guys in 2009 that thought it was a good idea to work as a currency and does not care about libertarianism/keynesianism talk?
> If BTC markets ever came close to rivaling a fiat currency nobody would realistically be able to mount a trillion dollar or more hardware attack on the "good" guys in the block chain.

The problem with this, is that it presupposes opponents with no foresight. If bitcoin was clearly on a trajectory to unkillable, the US might notice and decide to kill it.
Fake Twitter Followers Becomes Multimillion-Dollar Business
TechCrunch Founder Michael Arrington's History Of Abuse Allegations...
Here is the article on a single page rather than split across 6 pages.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/189899/why_are_we_stil...
Unemployment isn't at 53%. The link you posted puts unemployment at between 5-8 percent depending on how you interpret the data.
My impression would be that

* LuaJIT is comparable to the best javascript engines in performance

* LuaJIT is entirely the work of one person.

Lua is well designed and values simplicity, which has lent itself well to Pall's success.
I agree that URLs should be for machines, and that SEO in url paths is stupid, but I disagree that urls should be hidden from users. If you're talking about browser UI, it could show the full domain, and hide the protocol and url path unless the url is clicked on, but the full url needs to be readily accessible.

> Why is this? Why do they ever even see the URL?

Because the url often transmits more information than what's in the page title. For better or for worse.

Because the web is about inter-site linking. You can't link if you can't see the full url to a page. You seem to think that only automated software or "power users" would ever want to create links.

> Why do I care what the link is?

You've never wanted to link to anyone else's pages? It's not just power users who do this. Casual internet users share full url links all the time. Requiring more than one click to get at the full URL is burdensome and would change linking on the web.

The web is not the only place urls are used, and http, https, spdy are not the only url protocols in existence. In some cases urls are the only information you have about a resource, and it takes quite a while to get additional information. BTIH, for instance, can take a while to get the torrent depending on the initial connection status to the p2p cloud. In other cases, there may never be any additional information about a resource besides the content of the url. You can't hide urls like those. The URL bar needs to stay. It doesn't have to show full url paths all the time, but it needs to be ready to in a click.

Search engines already understand this, but they go as far wrong in the other direction with SEO signals based on url paths, which encourages pathological descriptive url paths rather than encouraging url paths that are merely adequately identifying.
If you have a MS degree then you qualify for the special category where they issue 20,000 visas thus if you strike out once, you get 2nd shot for the lottery.
Why should we ever care about money laundering when they didn't punish HSBC?

They aren't serious about this issue, why should we care?
> How can a Bloomberg article

Because it's not a Bloomberg article, it's an opinion piece.
On the contrary I believe, suppose bitcoin explodes national fiat currency as I saw a couple of guys wishing, once governments put some regulation, double booking accountting for companies who will have no incentive to avoid taxes and pay a lot later and the fact you can trace all transaction would kill any anonymity unless it remain a currency for black markets.
Because HSBC wasn't doing the money laundering. The charge was a failing to exercise the controls required by banking laws. See: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2012/12/11/hsbc...
I think of bitcoin the same way I think of the music of Led Zeppelin: I don't let the fans stand in the way of my appreciation of a good product.
"...if I could legally run a website where I would publish smaller version of any photo I find on the Internet..."

Doesn't Google/Bing do this with their image search?
British Library adds billions of webpages and tweets to archive
A tagger who has the nerve to tag a police station is more likely to be involved in violence than a fairly educated 17 year old adolescent who codes. Why is this not reasonably fair to say? I don't understand.

We're talking about tagging a police station. That's a direct affront to the authority that (arguably) establishes a respectable degree of order and attempts to ensure peace (lack of violence). A person who expresses contempt or animosity towards those who (in general) attempt to ensure peace seems to be a person that would perpetrate violence...right?

Why is this wrong? (I'll just throw in a little something to tell you I have an idea of what I'm talking about). I grew up in the projects where undercover police would ride around in taxi cabs and basically sit like homeless people near subway entrances. This is a very tense environment, and I've seen many people arrested with a fair amount of force by the police. I also saw the remains of numerous gunfights a few times while coming home from school. Now imagine tagging a police station in this kind of environment. It's quite a task isn't it? Certainly a person who spends their time coding could be considered less violent prone, right?
No that's fine. From the above it does sound like it.

Normally I would agree, but I really couldn't fix bugs in this code without re-factoring majorly. It really was that bad. I wouldn't have minded so much if we hadn't supplied the guy with a sample which showed how he should lay it out as well.

I may have gained a boost from his code (I did literally just scrub the codebase and reused a lot of had a change a heck of a lot too) but im certain I didn't gain 3 months from using what was delivered.

For the SQL portion we explicitly told him to use repository pattern using Entity Framework which he totally ignored this requirement. The moment I saw raw SQL in our models I really cracked it.

Of course the above could have been fixed with a decent peer review process but I could write chapters over what happened there. Suffice to say I saw the code once, made many requests of things to fix and was never invited to review it again.
I totally agree that hacks to avoid idling when are willing and able to pay is lame. We've actually been working on something very similar to what you describe. Send me an email at adam at heroku dot com and I can give you early access.
Introducing PlayScript
It just felt to me like retribution for this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5491293

Where I'm guessing that refer.ly is trying to raise their own series a and possibly getting frustrated.

That said - entrepreneurs should be more concerned with growing a business than making friends with VCs, so more power to danielle if this is how she ends up making it work.
Wine requires knowledge of what you're doing and a fair amount of fiddling for most things - this raises the bar too high for general consumers, probably more in terms of effort than skill required.

There are only 141 applications in Wine's 'platinum' list, and a heap of those are multiple entries for variants or DLC of the one game. Things not on the 'platinum' list require further configuration.
>It's no longer reasonable for people to deny that JavaScript doesn't lend itself well to optimizing run-time performance.

For a language that "doesn't lend itself well to optimizing run-time performance", it did far better than: Python, Ruby, Perl and most other dynamic languages...
It's pretty rare, I see it pop up once a week or less.

A handful of sites are blocked, after a while of being available iphonedevsdk.com was blocked, for instance. That makes perfect sense given they were the vector for lots of high profile attacks.

Noisebridge.net was blocked, but while organizing an event I requested it be made available and it has been since.

I suspect there is a lot of overlap with Google's unsafe sites list, but this was listed as "Education;Spam/Illegal".
How is that the proper response? If one person gets away with running a red light, do we just turn them all off?

The travesty of HSBC getting away with their crimes should be a reminder of the value of the rule of law and an impetus to fight even harder against those that would think themselves above it.
"The new emphasis was on "supply side" economics, which essentially "blamed the nation's ills on 'big government' and called for lower taxes, reduced federal spending (military exempted), fewer government regulations, and more private sector initiatives" (Abramovitz, 1992, 101). Thus, to effect a change in the political economy, Reagan was able to win major concessions regarding social policy that continue today. By taking away the safety net, the working class was effectively neutralized: workers no longer had the freedom to strike against their employers or depend upon the social welfare system as a means of living until finding employment. Business was thus free to lower wages, benefits, and the length of contracts. The overall result was that the average income for the average American dropped even as the average number of hours at work increased (Barlett and Steele, 1996; Schor, 1992)." -- Electronic Journal of Sociology (1998)
ISSN: 1198 3655

How much have a worker's real wages dropped? Minimum wage should be around $20 an hour, $10 for context of this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=D...
will be nice to go the other way around too: for links on websites to go "deep" into apps
Yep. No sense being coy I suppose.
Then you would have to have millions of buttons for the millions of things people do with files. The beauty of the filesystem is that a single function (save) can be extended by other programs into many things. (Source control, file transfer, editing in another program, ect.)