skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally feel that a manger's responsibility to his team is to have enough people so that an individual doesn't have to be pushed to his/her mental limits like this (and also rebuff demands from upper management that go beyond the team's reasonable limits).

It's a difficult balance between one's responsibility to his team members and to the bottom line of the company, but at least for me, a manager (I guess), I like to side with my team. Shareholders can expect a "reasonable return" (like it says in J&J's credo), not "maximum return".

"When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return"

http://www.jnj.com/wps/wcm/connect/c7933f004f5563df9e22be1bb...
Who is the typical customer at this shop? Is it purchasing agents from volume manufacturers, or engineers building prototypes? I'd guess it is the former, and the people building prototypes are lucky, in that they can piggyback off this ecosystem, and the sellers are happy to deal with small quantities.

Perhaps this type of shop has disappeared from places like the US because the volume manufacturers now do their purchasing via more efficient B2B Internet transactions, and the prototyping community in any one location on earth is too small to make this sort of shop profitable? From a prototyping point of view, the anomaly is the presence of this shop, not its absence.

A solution might be to recreate the "techshop" experience on the Internet, in a way that gathers the "long tail" of prototypers from around the world into a number that justifies a significant investment. A virtual techshop?

Every component would have a complete mechanical/electrical simulation model available. Want to see what a component looks like? Pull up a dimensionally accurate 3D model. The model can be rendered to get a visual picture, or pulled into any CAD package to check fit or do a dynamics simulation. Electrical components should be able to fit into a circuit simulation.

It should be possible to search/browse components, including a parametric search. Since we've got 3D models, it should be possible to render a display case where you can pick up and inspect each component.

Once a design is complete, it should be possible for the system to generate a set of purchase orders, and mechanical drawings for custom parts, directly from the design data. (This is what CAD/EDA software already tries to do, but typically stops at the BOM stage rather than progressing to a purchase order.)

A dream, but dreaming doesn't hurt.
well that escalated quickly. sheesh.
Made my first 10K in Online Poker at 17 and parlayed that into 50K by 20.
Without knowing the actual content of the agreement between Mt.Gox it is difficult to judge - but for me this seems like a shady move from coinlab. The loss calculation is laughable and this behaviour reminds me of patent trolls. (Not to mention that this case could hurt the whole Bitcoin ecosystem at the moment).

Another example that startups should not be too dependent on other companies.

Last update from the Coinlab website (4/10) [1]:

"On the lack-of-progress side, we're still waiting for two things to be implemented. Once those are done, we'll be ready to go.

Full customer data access
Working wire and Dwolla withdrawal forms
Because of Gox' strong customer data protection methodologies, we aren't allowed to deliver these things directly, they have to go through the Gox process, and that's taking longer than any of us want."

[1] http://coinlab.com/status
Would you mind if I ask you to elaborate? I can think of two ways to read this

1. If the USA bombs China, and China fights back, that means a global war and global wars accelerate the progress of science and technology, therefore in the long run people in Wisconsin will be better off just like quite possibly they are better off now than they'd be in the alternative universe where World War II never happened (where they might not have satellite TV, GPS navigation, nuclear energy, computers etc.)

2. If the USA continues to trade with China, in a number of years China may become equally as powerful as USA or more and then China may choose to go to war with America and win.

Did you mean any of the two? I'm assuming the long run part is critical since in the short term it's fairly obvious that people in Wisconsin and everywhere would be worse off if the US bombed China.
Gawker has an article, but you pretty much nailed it: http://gawker.com/massive-bitcoin-business-partnership-devol...
No. Coinbase is a YC backed company (hn user barmstrong and an ex-Goldman dude). Coinbase is not involved in this shit at all, except by virtue of being a Bitcoin business.

Coinlab is a company with Draper investment and some other angels, not YC, and did the weird marketing/sale deal with MtGox. http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/coinlab-gets-500000-...

Coinbase is tiny compared to MtGox/Coinlab. I'm sure YC wishes it were an investor in MtGox/Coinlab too!

(Adding to the confusion: the founder of MtGox left a while ago and created a company in the Bay Area called OpenCoin, Inc. (opencoin.com) which is creating RipplePay, a weird p2p debt currency, also non-anonymous. There's a great open source project doing a blinded token anonymous cash system called OpenCoin (opencoin.org) too, entirely unrelated, who complained about their name getting jacked.)
> If you play this out to its logical conclusion, none of the people that wealthy households depend on to maintain their lifestyles will be able to live near enough to the wealthy to provide those services.

Only if you prevent slums from forming. In order to do that, you need an influx of wealthy people that occupies all of the available land leaving nothing for the low-income communities.
If you haven't seen censorship on HN, you haven't looked hard enough. I've seen whole threads disappear for nothing more than meta-(calling out the censorship).
I'd argue that software is the lowest end of the foodchain. Pretty much anyone can write software, anywhere in the world, it's pretty much the first step to understanding how electronics work. Designing hardware is a much more difficult task and needs the kind of ecosystem described in the post.
Sorry, I had assumed you meant Portal 1.
According to SteamDB Portal 2 is still only available for Windows and Mac.

Portal 2 page on SteamDB:
http://steamdb.info/app/620/
It wasn't a big deal when Portal was added to OS X Steam years after the Windows release, it was a big deal when Portal 2 was available on day one.
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Coinlab released statement on their site about the suit.

http://coinlab.com/status-5-2

Full text:

I have more news on the Mt. Gox transition. Today, CoinLab regretfully filed a formal complaint in Federal Court against Mt. Gox.

In the last month, many of you have contacted me directly and asked for more details on our transition, and I would say (charitably) that I've been frustratingly vague -- I just haven't been able to talk about it.

I'm going to take this chance to talk about it. I'm not here to complain, our filing contains and accurate summary of events, but I want to talk about what I see as most important for Bitcoin right now.

Bitcoiners have, on average, lost more money due to technology difficulties, frozen / lost banking relationships and shady characters like pirateat40 than due to any part of Bitcoin's fundamental economics. I hate this fact, passionately. I have a vision in which high quality service and technology and ethics can be delivered to you, me, my kids, everyone who has a stake in Bitcoin.

It is my goal for CoinLab that we provide fundamental infrastructure to minimize these risks for everyone in our space, and I do mean everyone; from those on the Bitcoin Forums who dislike and distrust me personally, to the mom and pop cupcake makers in San Francisco, to my daughter who recently sold some knit products for .01BTC.

While I was willing to take a two year restriction on our venue (US and Canada only for two years was part of our contract), I have for a number of years now wanted to make sure that Bitcoin is properly situated for everyone's good.

When we spun up our initial alpha customers, they included companies that from one perspective could reasonably be deemed to be our competitors, some of the best companies in our space. We worked extremely hard to provide them great service, because I want to build our ecosystem; I want a robust economy and a broad base of service and product for everyone.

What tipped us into filing was our complete inability to get Mt. Gox to deliver on the few simple things left that were needed for customers to move over en-masse; we were often left just apologizing to our alpha customers while their own businesses suffered. I'm just not willing to put any of our customers in that position -- if we can't do a good job for you, I won't promise that we can.

What I hope is that Mt. Gox has this same interest in the good of Bitcoin, and Bitcoiners, and finds a way to work this out.

So, what's next? I hope that we'll be able to provide some good news on that front soon, from a financing and technology perspective at the very least, and ideally with news that we've settled this dispute. In the interim, my biggest hope is that Mt. Gox does an excellent job keeping Bitcoiners safe and liquid and trading on the exchange.

Peter Vessenes
You could have made money from the pirates by embedding a bitcoin miner in the app.
Use sacbee to look up how much police officers make in the area. Hint, a hell of a lot more then I do as a programmer with 10+ years of experience. Hell, that campus police officer that pepper sprayed those kids at Berkeley makes 6 figures.
I really don't know much about font rendering, but I thought that was the case too so I installed the Ubuntu fonts on my Arch Linux system, and they looked terrible. According to the Arch wiki, Ubuntu applies their own patches and "extra configurations" for freetype2, cairo, etc. I was able to achieve a similar, but not quite as pleasing result by installing freetype2-infinality on Arch.
Since MtGox is a Japanese company and they probably drafted the contract it's most likely under Japanese jurisdiction.

So this lawsuit will most probably just be thrown out regardless of merit.
They just updated the status page in the past 3 minutes. The one you referenced is now here:

http://coinlab.com/status-4-10
(I know what Gorilla is, I've contributed to it :D)

The OP, to which I was replying, said: "see the gorilla test which is a Go framework."

I asked about the Gorilla benchmark itself, since OP seemed to say that adding something like Gorilla would slow down the Go benchmarks, which I don't agree with.
> I am trying to understand the claim that using a picture of Lena is somehow sexist.

Oh come on, really now? This is the picture: http://www.ee.cityu.edu.hk/~lmpo/lenna/len_full.jpg

You don't think she's posing in a sexually suggestive way? The picture is originally from Playboy as the other comment pointed out.
I shouldn’t have written “[in the US] no parental leave is mandated whatsoever”. That isn’t the case per se, and I didn’t mean to imply so. I do feel the situation is way less secure for workers in the US than it is in many European countries.
Scheisse! Thanks for pointing that out!
Again I really wish there were someone doing a US-regulated (CFTC) bitcoin exchange in the US, as well as a non-US but non-"normal business" exchange somewhere else in the world -- a real commodities exchange somewhere like Hong Kong or Luxembourg. MtGox is essentially a normal Japanese business operating due to the grey area of financial regulation around BTC in Japan.

MtGox is the incumbent and biggest, but isn't really up to the standard of financial markets.

(and, it should be an exchange for arbitrary cryptocurrencies, ideally including blinded ones, and currencies linked more explicitly to existing commodities or currencies. A BTC purchase transaction should be involve swapping a USD cryptocurrency for a BTC cryptocurrency (either BTC directly, or a BTC-backed, optionally-blinded token).

It's totally within normal VC scale investment to set something like this up -- <$10mm. The cryptocurrency market is finally basically proven. The dual US/offshore structure, using the same technical architecture, and with a developer getting licensing fees from independent operating entities, seems like the way to go.
that's why you don't bring it before the court system...a severe scolding and a couple weeks of detention would have probably been sufficient
Do you want to become an expert in email deliverability, DNS, bounces, white listing, DKIM, SPF?

Or do you want to sell your product?

It boils down to that. Spend your time doing what you are GREAT at and what you WANT to do. Are you great at email deliverability? Do you want to spend your time becoming an expert on that? Probably not.

I know how to change the oil in my car. I know how to mow my lawn. I know how to clean toilets. I don't do any of those things because they are a huge waste of my time that is better spent elsewhere. Same thing goes here.
Yes, let's equate the popping of any pressurized plastic bottle to roadside mines, that's totally reasonable.

That little terrorist. She probably get the plans directly from Al-Qaeda.
That's not really how international commercial disputes happen. You generally sue in the most favorable jurisdiction where you have some presence/nexus (a US business always can use the US). The issue is that any judgment will then need to be taken to Japan to perform, although it's possible/likely MtGox has assets in the USA, so you wouldn't need to go to Japan. There also may be US/Japan treaties which are relevant.

I am not a lawyer, and international disputes are even more complex.
In all fairness this place is one district of one city in China. If you go to Akihabara in Tokyo you get somewhat the same thing : small stalls that sell exactly one type of product. You find your people who sell lightbulbs, or a guy who sells only capacitors.

But my point is that while that district has a bunch of that stuff, you really don't find that anywhere else (at least not in Tokyo). This is probably a similar deal.
Think of threads as state machines. At the OS level, you have to track a lot more, because you have to service any process that can create a thread. Within your constrained environment, your 'thread' can be something as simple as a small data structure or record that does something when a message is passed to it or a function is called on it. The services you provide to each of your 'threads' can be lightweight, intelligently aggregated and prioritized, and can have only the memory allocated that is needed for the representation of that structure.

Think of a thread as if it were an object in C#, Java, whatever. Stuff happens to it, and it does stuff, but it's all based on propagation of state changes. It can be processing in serial, but because of the abstraction, it will appear to be concurrent, and therefore, effectively BE concurrent.
Study Finds No Single Cause of Honeybee Deaths
Flight of the RoboBee: Tiny hovering robot creates buzz
"It will take "a few more years" before the robo-flies will be able to carry a power source".

I'm not so sure. I have a feeling that if these can be made even smaller, it would effectively require less power than it currently needs.

Right now, the material weight is adding a proportionally greater burden to the wings and the required power goes up. but if these can be made with even lighter materials and in even smaller scales, they may be able to scavenge solar power or receive wireless power via radio waves.

In fact, it's exactly these types of gadgets that can benefit the most from wireless since they just need to waft into the vicinity of a transmitter to absorb energy. A smaller battery (or super capacitor) can store it quickly before it has to move away to do whatever job it needs to do.
Yeah, hardware and test equipment has certainly never been more accessible and affordable. Back when Radio Shack had more than a drawer full of components per store they were still extremely limited - now you can get whatever you want in a couple of days. Gotta love all the free hardware-related software tools yet sort of hate the end of thru-hole components!
I still have a hope for robots. They are behind the sci-fi schedule, but still cheaper&easier to program every year.
I have no doubt that this near-slavery condition will always exist, but that doesn't make it right.

Confederates before the US Civil War argued in favor of slavery, and some of the arguments weren't far off from that thinking. http://www.ushistory.org/us/27f.asp
Pics with the disco ball!
The shift in the second one should be 31, if I understand what you're doing correctly.

The third one is incorrect. Consider, for example, the integer 0xFFFFFFFF00000001, which is -4294967295 in 2's complement. It passes your test, but is not representable as a 32-bit signed integer. An alternative might be:

movsxd rax, edi ; signextend(rdi mod 2^32) == rdi
cmp rax, rdi
setz al
ret
David, Dafeng, and Teng - In case I didn't make it clear before: You guys are a fucking inspiration. March on strikingly.
Awesome, that's a lot of SMT machines!
"for the sake of bitcoin" mt gox, a japanese company running an anonymous currency exchange should hand over full account, holdings, and trade details of all of their north american customers to a company under US jurisdiction? how does that make sense?
Agreed, although there are new residences going in at Market and Noe, Market and Dolores, Market and Buchanan, A couple of huge ones (30 stories each?) near Market and 9th, More big ones on Mission and 8th. Those are just the ones I noticed driving around the last couple of weeks. I'm sure there are more, China Basin for example.
I don't know that any of them will actually respond … a number of people have been complaining about this, and I can't recall a time when they've responded at all, let alone with anything reasoned, or reasonable. But it's ridiculous.

The best word I have for it is that it feels paternalistic. I think there are many occasions where HN commenters write dumb things and reflect on themselves poorly. And in many cases, the original title of the linked page is fine. But people writing blog posts (or just titling demo pages or other sites, like the one linked here) aren't writing their titles with the intent that their title will give context to the readers of a random forum. It's bizarre that HN mods change the titles, and I really wish they would stop.
In a heartbeat! I would do it for 20, but I find the idea of living in Antarctica pretty exciting.
I've considered doing similar experiments, but even with this hack, MongoDB is still orders of magnitude slower than Redis.

I actually don't understand why it's so slow - running it on a server with 256GB of RAM, writes are still disk-bound. Why aren't the disk writes running in a subtask? Yes, I'm running with write confirm off.

Anyway, if you need the speed of Redis, use Redis.
Vitamin company sues national broadcaster for exposing false claims
I find urban China absolutely fascinating, a feeling of relentless unbounded growth and development like London in the mid 1800s or New York in the 19?0s. To think how quickly these mega cities pop up out of nothing.. I have a feeling we will see nothing again quite like it.

On a similar vein to the OP, this is a video of a walkabout through the SED electronics market in Shenzhen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF0Qaxzp2nQ

Be forewarned, it's just the guy looking at tablets and asking prices of everything, but a skip through really gives you an impression of the place and the diversity of manufacturers (skin deep, at least).
A) That's a straw man argument. North European countries are no longer agrarian societies. Compare pre-enlightenment northern europe to their counterparts and you'll have a more honest comparison.

B) The separation of work due to existential needs was not sexist. It's just the initial condition that created the asymmetry in gender roles. That's to say a more agrarian society isn't necessarily more sexist than a less agrarian one. It's all the other factors that mold this asymmetry.
Ubicomp has been hating on disruption for over a decade.
Well, Mt. Gox agreed to do it, and given that they've repeatedly demonstrated their complete inability to operate a functioning exchange, you certainly couldn't do any worse by handing their customers over to Coinlab.
I think you're missing the scale of this here. Being to both I can tell you that Akihabara might have specialized shops, but nothing to the level of Huaqiangbei. Neither in terms of component diversity nor in the number of shops around.

And the article also mentions the direct access to actual people from the companies/factories. This alone is what makes it absolutely unique, in my view.
Both of them :)
My old boss told me this quote and I've always loved it. When the self-made millionaire was asked what he'd do differently if he got to do it all over again, he responded "I'd ask for help."
If I had to guess?

"Oh God we're so overwhelmed..."
All of my designers have sent me professionally documented PSDs and HTML/CSS. They often use some kind of HTML5/CSS3 Framework, like Skeleton, Twitter's Bootstrap or the popular HTML5 Boilerplate. That way they save a lot of time, but there are many tools that automate the process of writing HTML/CSS.

I hope that my Designer(s) deliver(s) nice HTML/CSS, so that I can convert it to a working template and then focus on writing the application. I often tweak the PSD and export the slices, because tools can't beat humans when it comes to optimizing the output size of the HTML/CSS.

It's commonly known and understood that the delivered HTML/CSS is of prototype quality, except when labeled "professional template". The time writing HTML/CSS is better spent at documenting the PSD and communicating how the UI-State transitions should be implemented, when the designer isn't good at it. Now you may see that there isn't a silver-bullet.

And don't forget, that when you work with a Developer, it is entirely possible that he doesn't know dime about Frontend Development too, because he/she might be Software Architect, a Backend Developer or something else that isn't involved with HTML/CSS.

Most Developers advised their Designer friends to avoid graphically intensive PSD in the past. Don't do that. With CSS3 it's almost possible to create image free templates that look like the PSD. Don't limit your Designers, but ask them to also think about the UX and colorscheme.

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It's my opinion that UI-Designers should also be professional Front-End Developers. And that Back-End Developers should also be Software-Architects. Being an expert of a fraction of a disciplines may be meaningful for Facebook, but certainly not for the common Start-up (imho).
China got to where it is in tech with the very opposite of free trade. It's industrial policy that gets you to this level, not free trade.
This is hardly news at all. It seems a China-tech article pops up every few months talking about relatively the same thing, awe, amazement, efficiency, whatever it may be.

Its not just Shenzhen though. You will find comparable shopping mall esque ones in other large cities. Parts of Yiwu and other cities in the south also have tons of electronic components. However, like many already stated, language is definitely a barrier for those that don't speak Mandarin.

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You can make C safe, it just takes lots of effort, as you see in the software you mentioned. Other languages may require less effort to write safe programmes in.
My heart goes out to all of his friends and family.