skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am ranting slightly out of the scope of my expertise, but I think that 'web bytecode' is putting lipstick on a pig. In fact, I think that the entire web stack is upside down, it is intended to serve a mostly static webpage, perhaps with a counter or a mouse-over effect. And it is doing this well. But to start with the browser, having a nice HTML parser, a DOM tree etc. is nice to have, sometimes. Similar with http, this is a stateless protocol, which again is nice, except if you want state. And on the other side of the connection is the webserver, which today is mostly a glorified front end for a database.

So every time I think about the web, my sense of software design is rebelling. It should just be constructed the other way around, with a nice VM on the client, that contains a browser if it is supposed to present structured hypertext. That communicates to a server over TCP/IP, without reinventing TCP atop of HTTP and a server that is actually tailored to whatever it is supposed to do. ( Before anybody accuses me of advocating Java, I want all of this nicely implemented.) But unfortunately, it is probably a billion users too late to start again from scratch.
(Note, the original question was deleted, so I can't see context.)

The public good most certainly includes the good of the people doing it, though. The notion that those who act on behalf of the public good must commit a sacrifice of their own, individual good is simply wrong.
That'll likely be a regular update through Windows Update.
Apple sued over faulty power button on iPhone 4
You don't know what he wants or doesn't want. It _could_ be selfish, but it could very well not be.

Maybe he just had the chance to learn a lot more about this particular disease and so it's more natural for him to invest there. It sure would feel more natural to me to contribute to research on a disease that I have experienced first-hand than to some other random one, even if the random one is more "important." No selfishness there. I would just identify better with the victims and have a more real urge to help them.
Only when it doesn't make sense :)
Importing from HEAD _is_ the Go convention (so far as I can tell from others' code); it's also Go convention (again, in my experience) to have each system in its own source tree specified in GOPATH, with all remote dependencies installed locally at a known version.

Again, as I mentioned elsethread, I'm pretty new to Go, so perhaps I've been misusing it.
There are no guarantees that the security software is not exploitable given the quicksand it is built on.
"I do freelance [whatever] over the internet in exchange for bitcoins."

Where "[whatever]" is something relatively unverifiable. Programming, essay writing, whatever. Declare it properly as income and you probably won't have issues unless somebody actually decides to look closer.

Not all that different from "selling" heavily marked up drinks at your bar in exchange for cash, then pouring said drinks down the drain. It will work for a while so long as you avoid suspicion.
From an interviewing perspective, it would be nice if you could create pad "templates" from which you could instantiate a pad with existing code that the candidate would have to somehow modify/fix.

Also, I'd love to see how saving pads for later review actually works before buying - even screenshots would go a long way in deciding if I want to pay.

Have you considered offering trial plans?
Would suggest checking out Tindie. It's a marketplace for hardware makers.
Ruby and Python can be shitty in the wild. In fact, every programming language has the ability to be shitty in the wild.

It just so happens that PHP is shitty by default.
You assume that because...? If rumour is to believed, Google and Facebook have both looked into this and couldn't make the model work.

The existing carriers and retailers are not interested because it threatens their existing revenue streams, creating huge barriers to entry. And perhaps demand is not as high as you think.
I don't doubt that they're smart and nice. I'd be shocked if they didn't want to do right by their customers. It seems like they have a pretty good track record of being good to their sellers and buyers. My friends who sell on Etsy have nothing but good things to say about them, and the few times I've bought from them the experience was surprisingly smooth for a user-run marketplace.

But Etsy's at a point where they're driving people's income that they depend on. The process for remediation and reconciliation shouldn't be unclear until they shut down your site.

I'd also like to see Etsy take on less of a shoot first and ask questions later approach. Especially when something is as grey-area as this. If he's using a factory, he clearly isn't pushing enough product to justify having a factory.
They put the same interface on Windows Server 2012. Try using that through Remote Desktop Manager running in windowed mode, it'll drive you crazy.
"If your videos are created at such a high level that only people with an IQ>130 can understand, you won't get that many views"

That's a terrible specific example because you only need 0.25% of the American population to watch to get a gold plaque, but by the old standard of 95% of the population scores within 2 SD of the mean aka 70-130 IQ, that means your videos would appeal to about 2.5% of the population, or ten times as many people as you'd need to achieve the coveted youtube gold plaque.

I get what you're trying to say even if the example was not so good. The problem is no one watches youtube, so the small fraction of popular videos is pretty small if you compare it to the fraction of the population who are smart.

"They don't care about production value that much."
Production quality is a DSW for professional producers and no one else cares.
Attractive young woman I saw in the lunchroom today got plenty of attention from the guys despite not having rehearsed her lines and screwing up the joke punchline. And lighting and costumes weren't any good and none of us had much of a decent camera angle. Nothing in life that's memorable ever seems to be hollywood perfect, and no one minds but the professional production crews.
How is this different tho from USD -> Swiss Franc -> USD? I don't see how that cleans the money...
Bro-sie the Riveter
The complaint says that they have not actually given out the offered refunds. Is that not true?
Money Laundering is a serious risk banks face, you only need to look at HSBC's recent debacles to see why. AML/Compliance at contra Dwolla Banks would have flagged this and quite rightly so. I disagree with your last statement. Could you please elaborate?
As other people are saying, maybe the original author made changes to the external dependencies he pulled in. Or maybe he's just bullshitting and indeed the code may have never worked. Or, sure, maybe the people trying to reconstruct the application went about it entirely the wrong way, like you suggest. It's just curious that you'd instantly pick the least charitable interpretation.
Case Study: Creating Game Engines in WebGL and Stage3D
Wow....as someone that made a feedback app...compliments. This is awesome! Especially if this is your first web app?

I have been thinking of doing a re-write, it's just not high on my priority list.

What did you use to manage the uploads? It worked nicely for me in Chrome.

Edit: Maybe add some more contrast to the copy at the bottom. It is very hard to read.
Patent trolls try to force them to settle for nominal amounts to avoid litigation, one example I heard is a troll sending demands to the end users of copy machines "that scan to email" instead of the manufacturers and retailers. At that point it is a numbers game if they get 1% of end users to pay $1000 it adds up. Now that is some of the more egregious (maybe unlawful) examples but it will become more common.

Edit: This is a link to one article about my example (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/meet-the-nice-guy...) it seems the troll went after small business and demanded $1,000/employee using the scan to email function.
Cool tool, will be using it next time I need some feedback on assets!
Kaptan, configuration manager for python projects.
Not an expert, but my understanding was that most of those were either from bindings to unsafe functions (e.g. C++ functions from LLVM) or false positives from the compiler dealing with the 'unsafe' keyword in the code its compiling.
I agree there's not enough information to determine how much he is contributing. I see some wood and a soldering iron, but I don't see evidence he is populating the boards himself, or his jig for making the finger joints. He might be but he doesn't show a set up sufficient to determine. I'm also skeptical of the claims that there are trade secrets involved in assembling known designs and boards made by others and putting together a rectangular case. The Bob Moog factory in Asheville has glass windows around their factory floor and customers are invited to watch their entire assembly process. Does Moog have more protection worthy trade secrets in their assembly methods than these designs? Probably.

If he is putting fully assembled boards into a premade box, is it hand made? In his post it sounds like he is saying he designs the front panel layout and has it cut and stenciled at a facility somewhere, and no doubt he screws in the potentiometers, attaches the knobs, and solders the leads. He says the boards come from China and are designed by someone else. He doesn't say if he populates the boards or if they come finished, ready for lead attachment. If lead attachment and the panel layout this is the extent of his work, perhaps etsy might not consider that truly handmade. Or perhaps they want more disclosure about how much is done. Maybe some consider that handmade, others not. It's kind of hard to say. Let's say I am a customer and someone is selling original "handmade" instrument designs in a wooden case. I very well may assume from this claim that it was their own design and they made the box. I probably would not be shocked if the board etching was done elsewhere. But then what if I find out that all the electronics were designed by another person and the boards are not just etched but populated in a large Chinese factory and arrive at the seller's house assembled. Was I ripped off by the claim it was handmade? Maybe.
I've been learning python from Udacity and earlier from Think Python. I'm in Ottawa, but I would like to learn/work remotely on a project if anyone's interested.
Sub-contract manufacturing will do that.

They'll build it how you like too, so if you want neat and tidy cables they'll lace them or spiral wrap them or cable tie them. And if you want untidy spaghetti mess they'll do that too.
Bitcoin crosses borders more easily than CHF. Try this:

Money in Saudi Arabia -> mt gox -> bitcoin -> mt gox -> terrorists inside the USA
http://hwhelp.s3.amazonaws.com/hwhdocs/The%20Math%20Behind%2... [PDF]

Pythagoras: why we throw giant rocks at walls.
Itch can now be *scratched*
That's incredible! I might have to try building that sometime. I love the idea of walking out to my backyard with my shirt off and doing a bunch of squats in the sun! Plus I would never have to wait on people doing curls in the squat rack ;)
Foc.us is a tDCS headset for gamers
Banks are under the same political pressure as Mt Gox is, they're just better at handling pressure and playing nicely with politicians, so you don't hear about it as much.

Ever tried to send money to Somalia? If you think that's a silly question, there are a lot of Somalians here in Minneapolis who would like to feed their families back home (and a lot of banks who would like to make money by helping out). But politics makes that very, very hard. This is just one example.
This should be the top comment. I never realised the tech crowd were as bad/the same as the bodybuilding.com crowd.
I don't have a 'main' browser. I use Firefox as my development browser, Chrome for office apps, and Safari for general reading. It's not paranoia, it just lets me keep things separate in a very easy way.
I guess he should have should the laser etch in process - or maybe mail them a special "Hello Etsy!" laser etched bit of wood.

He could have described his process a lot more clearly. He could have said which bits were bought in, and then which bits he did more work to, and then what gets assembled to what.
TV wasn't that bad 10-15 years ago. Formulaic as they were, 90s sitcoms used to always entertain, even if they didn't have much new to bring to the table.

Now, of course, we have mindless nonsense on TV, but I'm afraid YouTube is even worse. I have no subscribers on YouTube, and I never watch any of the producers listed in the article.

I generally use it for music (I listen to a lot of jazz, and Spotify has very little jazz music), and watching arbitrary YouTube videos that end up in links from Hacker News.

And the occasional technology video.

EDIT:

What's interesting about the article is the trail of comments left by top YouTubers, such as Ryan Higa, Tay Zonday, and Lamarr Wilson. Really entertaining to read their responses.
I'm also looking for a mentor but in Marketing/Communications field. Especially if you're in a SMB and you are the sole person for that department, it can get really tough to advance yourself. Of course you can self-teach by reading articles but as many of you mention, it's more motivating to bounce ideas off of someone experienced in the field. Are there mentor programs like Thinkful but for business/management related people?
Mutiny in Orbit
The counterargument to this is that FooCorp is probably not optimizing its sales funnel to catch the kind of people that read technology sites. Statistically speaking that is a marked minority.

You make a good point that you don't want to annoy user so much that they rise up against you with torches and pitchforks, but I believe patio11's point is that the indignance of a few HNers does not compare to increasing engagement/conversion of trial users by e.g. 0.5%.
Great tool. Will be using it and borrowing ideas from your 'signup' process - so well done!
Great point on the pennies, that totally skipped my mind.

In regards to melting, this is funny to admit, when I was young, I used to believe that coins should be worth more than dollars, because if they ever lost their value, I'm pretty sure I'd have more use for the metal than paper.
If you are interested in bodyweight training, check out this excellent book: http://www.amazon.com/Overcoming-Gravity-Systematic-Gymnasti...
There certainly is a very real cholera risk in the poorest communities in the US.

Take, for example, the colonias in southwestern Texas, where ~400k people live in informal housing without access to basic infrastructure or services, and where diseases like cholera and dengue fever have far higher rates of incidence. These aren't all illegal immigrants or anything, either -- the Texas secretary of state reports 64.4% of Texan colonias residents are US citizens[1].

It's easy to assume there's no poverty that deep in this country when, by and large, our standard of living is better than most of the world, but unfortunately there really are places in the US to which the descriptor "third world" is applicable.

NYT has some good coverage of the conditions in the colonias, if you want to read more. Here's a start: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/us/10tthealth.html?_r=0

[1] http://www.sos.state.tx.us/border/colonias/faqs.shtml
In an age of 3D printed firearms how can one doubt what it takes to build such electronics?

I especially like the wood casework.
I used to work for a guy who built his own hardwood cabinets to house his computers because his wife wanted things to be "pretty."
The cabinets were oversize and easy to work on besides being beautiful.
DHS (US govt) is deathly afraid of bitcoin.
Dept. of Homeland Security freezes accounts between Dwolla and Mt. Gox
Pretty much every step of USD -> CHF -> USD for large enough denominations is dealt with by firms that have strict requirements regarding recording transactions and verifying the identity of their customers due to anti-money laundering laws.
It depends upon the application, He is right and you also are right for the feilds of programming and applications you do, gets down to pro's and cons of types of interface to the database depending upon the application at hand. We all know the variations of those. Though perhaps could of been toned right. You are just going to argue over differing types of application without saying which type.

In short you are both right, applications and also use of said applications and requirments make the difference as to what interface is best. Don't need to argue over that without even stating it. You both win, this is the internet - now laugh :).
Just a heads up - there is a XSS vulnerability in comments.
HeadOn apply directly to the forehead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is3icfcbmbs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeadOn

It works for some. Actually it works for a lot, and that doesn't mean it's a bad thing. Most people go through the day without the intuitive eye for wit, great taste, and appreciation for production value that a media manipulator and PR strategist would have, but I wouldn't say that makes the world a worse place. What's good and what's effective can be 2 separate things entirely.
Does that database display pending patents? It seems to me they are claiming to have patents pending.
Interesting idea. Best of luck.

But in a world where sometimes even the smallest of details can make the difference, I'd like to point out that your front page has a right-rail blurb with a button inviting me to "Learn more"... which just links to your front page. While that did cause me to learn more (that you have a "bad" link)... I'm pretty sure that is not what you wanted me to learn.
Most people who are rich got there by externalizing costs or by taking resources (rarely money; often land and social capital) that didn't belong to them, but whose legitimate owners (often the public) didn't have the ability to defend.

There are exceptions, but I doubt that they're more than 15%.
I really like Safari's Reader and that feature alone keeps me on Safari. Readability and other similar plugins on Chrome are nice, but I don't find them as well done as Reader.
Tighten your seat belts, rotten Apple. :)
Link to source (an email to Chris Coyne): https://twitter.com/malgorithms/status/334395559366520832
Judging by Regretsy, the moment Elmer's Glue gets into the mix.

He should have called it a "found electronic objects sculpture", and also glued a uterus to the bottom of it.

When his project is inevitably accepted back onto Etsy, he should make some marketing hay out of this, because his project is so ambitious and well-finished that Etsy thinks it must be a large-scale commercial project.
Charity and fundraising are the two socially acceptable ways to buy influence in the US.

Honestly, I like that it's out in the open. Influence is subject to the same scarcities everything else is. You won't equalize society by hiding powerful peoples' connections, something every "equal" society has learned.
The real question seems to be "who solders the components to the PCB?" The OP says "The knobs, potentiometers, and jacks were all secured by me. I did all of the wiring as well. Ordered the parts and soldered them all to the board too." The problem is that he makes it sound like an afterthought and does not provide photographic proof of this step (soldering what looks like about 60-80 components to the board in the one picture).

But given that the finished board could be outsourced just as easily as the PCB, the Etsy emails seem to be inquiring about that--without really asking outright, which just adds to the confusion. OP's admission that he is preparing a lot more products without being able to provide photo proof further adds doubt to his case.

I don't know Etsy, their rules, their policies, or what they allow in their store, but they seem to want OP to prove he soldered his boards himself, and he hasn't. I don't know if that's fair or not, but it does seem evasive on OP's part. Also, going nukular and posting the whole thing online (thus knowingly reducing the chance of being reinstated to near-zero) strikes me as something that a dishonest person does when they get caught/called out.
What do you think Dwolla should do when given validly formed court orders?

Which particular Dwolla employee do you think should spend time in jail for contempt of court to satisfy your need for them to push back?
> Are we sure that bitcoin originated in America? Maybe they gave us this gift, and we promptly mishandled it and lost it.

Yep we mishandled it certainly... When there is a new technology which is about to change the face of the planet, the usual response is to bring as much of the industry for that tech into your own country.

The US response has been the opposite. I suspect later generations are going to regret it.
I didn't know that C++ auto and decltype were this tricky
That GitHub page tells me they did clone all of the dependency repos six months when they were trying to recover it.

If the game was finished and working but does not compile anymore, that sounds like a trivial thing for a hardworking developer to fix in a pretty short amount of time.

I've seen much worse when porting games across platforms. This doesn't look even close to "beyond repair".
MS had planned to make the update before Win 8 was released
I tried them for a year because of the great reviews on Reddit, but I was quite unhappy about it. Less than 99.9% up time monitored by uptimerobot.com. Some of my sites have less than 99.5% up time in fact. I'm monitoring some of my clients' sites on Siteground and they have better up time over there (>99.9%).
Bookmarked. This is awesome. Love that no account is required.
The NPR model where they may or may not stay on the air regardless of your donation is a much better long term model for kick-starter than pre-orders. IMO, the best way to keep the idea alive is to make the retail versions of the product cost significantly less than those pre-orders.

Something like: Support Baldur's gate III, donate 100$ and get a retail version of the game when it comes out. (estimated retail value 50$)

The idea being your making it clear your doing something other than shopping when you donate to a kick-starter project.
Yeah, that 20% should have a cap.
Can you explain how you're certain that Tim Cook doesn't fit within the exceptions? You speak in the abstract, but this is a real case.
The garbage collector and cycle collector are run all the time normally, so clicking on those buttons shouldn't have too much effect on memory when you are using the browser normally. They are mostly useful for getting to a settled memory state right after opening a page rather than having to wait a few minutes for it to naturally happen, or in the rare cases where a GC should be triggered but isn't.

As for why running the GC might increase RAM usage, I guess it is possible that some memory had been paged out, but running the GC causes the browser to touch all memory, paging it back in. That's just a guess though.
+1 though your both right depending on the applicatiton and with that you will go from your experience and both be right without specifying in detail an example and neither of you want to go down to doing specs on a forum to win a argument that you both will win and end up arguing about the applicaiton and specs.

I say payroll databases at dawn, 50 paces each, turn and shoot. Go :-)