skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait, so, they were expecting to develop agains an X version, and then after release, when they release the source it will compile easily for all it's users with zero dependencies problems?

I don't see how bashing Go would help these guys out of the hole they are in, same would have happened with any other programming language in a project that uses fast-moving dependencies...

They were making a game, they could have just forked the projects they needed, and build from that, that's the way to do these kind of projects, you stick on a revision, and when there is an update on a dependency, the team should agree to make the upgrade changing all the required source code.

For what they say, the main developer had no idea that the repositories were changing a lot, and he never updated them, so everything was going thru smoothly... I don't see the need to bash Go, neither the main programmer, i just believe he needed more experience to handle the project correctly.

What i don't like is their attitude "nobody can fix this Go garbage code because Go is all wrong"...
Wow, this is dishonest and I'd be surprised if it wasn't against Kickstarter's TOS. What happens if they made their goal but no more? Part of the point is supposed to be that if the makers don't get enough money to fully fund the project, then none of the money goes out. By setting your KS goal lower than your actual goal, you're skirting around a part of Kickstarter designed to lower risk for backers AND makers. http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics#faq...
Ask HN: What are some good programming blogs?
An example of what I like is http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
exactly. Imagine how many more lives Larry could improve if he happened to have had diabetes?

I think it's selfish/egotistical for someone who wants to donate a TON of money to medical research to choose a disease that he/she happens to have instead of sitting back, doing some research, and supporting research that will help the most people. That's just my opinion. I can see the other side of the coin too. Hell, maybe the amount of money we're talking about here is peanuts compared to the amount of money Larry already donates to other more widespread medical causes, maybe Larry just failed to mention that in his writeup. I suppose one shouldn't jump to conclusions.
Depends. These took me about 8 hours a piece. Not including the design process which was a bit more. Needless to say I'm not the faster solder or wire guy on the planet.

Appropriately and by sheer coincidence, I just got into time lapse photography. Here's my first vid. It's terrible!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMPEb1GEva8

Did I make this video to satisy Etsy's ridiculous expectations (that aren't documented anywhere)? NO! Did I make it because it's fun? YES!

The problem here is that Etsy isn't my boss or my manager. That's the whole reason I sell through them. I want to avoid someone looking over my shoulder to make sure I'm working all the time or working within their absurd guidelines.

This is the question I really want to discuss about Etsy. Obviously, I'm against the radical approach to just closing stores based solely on suspicion!
Chrome on laptop and phone. Mobile Safari and desktop FF are the occasional fallbacks. I'm no longer a dev, otherwise my answers would be different.
This actually seems to be a very YC kinda thing, presumably because of the extreme obsession with growth. I signed up for a vendor to check out its features the other day and had 3 different sales people email me each of the next 3 days asking if they could help. Another service did the same "we miss you, you haven't been back since..." How does any of this stuff provide value to me as a user? It genuinely seems like they don't give a shit about their users and simply want people to visit the site so their metrics will stay up.
upvoted simply for working Def Leppard into the conversation. :)
Voronoi Maze
I'm willing to bet that any Go programmer worth their salt not tired of the project can get it running if it were simply build dependency version issues.

I'll take a stab at it this weekend (if I have time).

For the curious, here is their repo:
https://github.com/runningwild/haunts
Not at all. The Donate option would cause confusion, even for me. Pledge is the perfect word. Not only does donate imply giving money (which you don't do on Kickstarter), but it also implies a non-profit status.

I do however pledge to give money on KickStarter. I can cancel at any time. Heck, I can pledge and not pay when the time comes.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that changing from Pledge to Donate would have the opposite effect: cause more confusion, cause more problems, and not solve anything you are trying to solve.
I'm sure someone on rentacoder can figure it out:

http://blog.willbenton.com/2008/11/rent-a-coder-hilarity/
There's LBE Privacy Guard which is available in the Play store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbe.securi...

It's broken at the moment but used to provide the feature you requested
Here's one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.privacy.pd...
When Your Startup Feels Less Like A Hockey Stick And More Like A Hip Check
I sent Etsy a link to another device I'd built and it's build process thinking this would serve as a demonstration of my ability and position of assembler.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/52082118@N05/sets/7215763303855...

They weren't satisfied.
I saw someone mentioned tindie.com in the other thread regarding this particular electronics project. Seems like someone over at tindie noticed, nicely done.
No, I believe the text directly that follows the paragraph you quoted is more relevant, and I am Not a Lawyer, but the facts outlined do not appear to be consistent with mere negligence, at least any definition of negligence that I'm familiar with.

18. Between 2000 and 2009, HSBC Bank USA, and its executives
and officers, were aware of numerous publicly available and
industry-wide advisories about the money laundering risks
inherent to Mexican financial institutions.

19. Despite this evidence of the serious money laundering risks associated with doing business in Mexico, from at least 2006 to 2009, HSBC Bank USA rated Mexico as standard risk, its lowest AML risk category. As a result, wire transfers originating from Mexico, including transactions from HSBC Mexico, were generally not reviewed in the CAMP system. From 2006 until May 2009, when HSBC Bank USA raised Mexico’s risk rating to high, over 316,000 transactions worth over $670 billion from HSBC Mexico alone were excluded from monitoring in the CAMP system.

Furthermore, the remaining 80% of the document goes on to outline a pervasive and long-running pattern of behavior consistent with willful subversion of both the letter and the spirit of AML.

I find it disappointing if not unsurprising that HSBC can continue to operate as usual after openly flaunting at staggering scale the very policies that Mt Gox is being effectively shut down for potentially falling afoul of.
> is just as artificial as a 64-KB limit on code page size for executable programs.

Well look at the intros of 64kb, you can still do amazing things with no space :)
What a nerd.

I salute them.
We did thanks!
- mt gox and BTC generally volume is miniscule, nowhere near to accommodate money laundering
- cartels probably make mt gox's monthly volume in one hour
- 'dirty money': is it cash or bank account? i presume cash. how will you sent million of $$ to mt gox? fedex a suitcase? how mt gox will deposit million $$ cash into their back account? good luck with that
- BTC transactions are public (see blockchain faq); tracing significant amounts of BTC entering and leaving mx gox is a matter of technicality
- etc
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What happened?
Apple has done this before announcements (software updates usually) but not regarding iTunes app sales milestones. I'm of the mind that it is a coincidence.

Google's done the same as well after Apple events such as them announcing they would drop h.264 for Chrome which never came to fruition.
1) http://www.altdevblogaday.com/

2) http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/

3) (Not really a blog, but so great) http://lwn.net/

4) (For entertainment) http://thedailywtf.com/
Why on Earth is this linking to some shortener rather than to the actual page, http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/programmer-come-work-for-us ?
Yeah, I saw that, but it has a lot of 1-star reviews. Something about all these apps doesn't inspire confidence, I don't know why...
Oh huh, that actually looks very nice! Thank you!

EDIT: Oh, Gingerbread-only :/

EDIT 2: It seems that the only "good/working" app is PDroid (and OpenPDroid for ICS). Unfortunately, it's only available for custom ROMs, and it's a lot of work to add it to stock ROMs. It looks like that this will either need a lot of hard work to do (and be hard to install), or Android will need to do it natively. Too bad neither option is very feasible...
As a professional singer and former researcher at the National Institute for Voice and Speech, I call bullshit here. Being "pushed" out of your normal range will not automatically cause the same kinds of improvements as weight-lifting does for skeletal muscles. It's just not that simple. It's especially not that simple if you have a paralyzed vocal fold.
Where do you see the price $7000?
Never. If I find an Internet resource that is useful I tell my friends about it on Facebook. Whether or not they follow ads on the site is up to them. (I also tell my friends about AdBlock Plus, Ghostery, and Social Fixer, so that they don't have to view ads if they don't want to.)
If you're looking to sell easily online, check out BOX'NGO (http://theboxngo.com).

Full disclaimer, I run it. We make online selling easy by taking a flat 10% fee on all sales. No adding up small costs here and there, figuring out listing fees, or subtracting Paypal charges, simply list and receive 90% of the profit via Paypal or check minus 46 cents.
Your examples are things that don't use databases.

There's a reason for that.

(and absolutely, yes, for things that don't it's a totally viable solution)
Excellent. I 100% agree. The best way to learn about a topic, is to promise a group of people to teach them about it sometime soon in the future, and then go off and prepare. Just remember nobody expects a teacher (of any sort) to have 100% of the answers 100% of the time. Great learning exchanges happen when there is a question that can't be answered by the teacher, and the class + teacher together try to find the answer.

Last May I sent a shot across the bow, telling my research group I would be teaching a boot camp on C programming. I spent the next 2 months refreshing my knowledge, and putting together a webpage/wiki sort of thing and generating sample code, etc. By the end I had a great resource not only for others but for myself, and along the way I ended up recoding a bunch of stuff in C and now it runs ~ 80 times faster (than Matlab/Python).
Well, pivot all you want but if the ice is cracking beneath you you're still going down.

Security was an afterthought - which might have been okay on a niche hobby site but wasn't when real money started to be traded.

When they get their act together and the issue stops coming up every six months it won't be as relevant. Until then, slam away - it gives potential users something real to find when searching for info about a service.
An application health dashboard should be standard practice in large software, especially software that supports plugin and interpreting code. I am sure I am not alone to feel that software get sluggish with time, or that certain updates causes a lot of crashes. A dashboard could monitor this and transparently show whether the application is working as intended, and if it's slow, show what's slowing it down. Good initative!
The vocal folds are emphatically NOT tougher than other muscles. They are in fact quite fragile and easy to damage compared to other muscles. It is irresponsible of you to post this.
I hope the winner is Tim Cook. "I just wanted to have some alone time."
By all means, compare a system in which local police are empowered to imprison people in labor camps for a year to one in which an overreaching local police force frisks people based on racial profiles.
Could be said that not enough people make health decisions based on risk. Someone quite public has done exactly that.
I disagree. VC's put money in enterprises to get more money out. But their transaction is just money -> time -> more money. Kickstarter isn't the solution (there needs to be a platform that has legally binding contracts that the funded party deliver within some time frame or face fines / reimbursement of funds for fraudulence or negligence, the same way some investors can go after their interests if they abuse the money) but what people want is money -> time -> thing they want.

And I think it is the only way to produce information anyway, so refining the technique and recognizing its value is economics is huge.
We attempted to produce and sell a very similar product (in fact the kick starter creator commented on our project and thanked us for the idea): http://www.usbmemorydirect.com/cryptex_usb_drive_update_page...

We didn't go ahead with production when we realized how expensive making these USB drives would be. If they really thought 12k would be enough they were pretty naive.
Rain on a window:

http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,1,1,1,1,3,2,2,2...
Besides the obvious issues with Javascript injection, I really love the design. I think you did a really good job here, the interface is simple and effective and this is definitely one of the nicely designed feedback apps I've seen (although I haven't seen too many, it's still a compliment). It's sad that people resorted to spamming the public link you posted with porn and annoying Javascript alert boxes. I hope you get the issues solved soon.

I have a recommendation however for the introduction text on the homepage, you've got orange text on an orange background which is impossible to read. I made a couple of little Developer Tool modifications and found the below CSS to make it more readable.

.primary-footer {
font-size: 0.8em;
color: #EFEFEF;
font-weight: normal;
}
On http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq/ it says:

How much does the degree program cost?

We’re not yet ready to announce a specific program cost, but the plan is to offer the Georgia Tech OMS CS for a total cost of under $7,000—a fraction of the cost of Georgia Tech’s on-campus program and even less than that of comparable private universities.
it in the exact same way that they destroyed Megaupload

You mean by filing a case against them and then, in the discovery process, locating the emails in which the founders of Mt. Gox openly admit that the whole enterprise is built on deliberate cultivation of commercial copyright infringement, so much so that the operators of Mt. Gox actually pay their users to upload pirated movies?

That sounds far fetched. If the US is going to try to take down Mt. Gox, I think they'll do it a different way than how they went after Mega.
WOW, simlply wow!
I WILL buy it, when I get paid for my current project! I was just building this myself, incl. a url shortener and analytics, but this UI blows it away! Every other solution out there I tried is inferior. I tried many other invoicing WebApps.

* Sir, can I help you by contributing??
* I can code/sysadmin/design

May I suggest adding your Bitcoin adress?
Kickstarter users should demand that Kickstarter realign their incentives for project success.

As it stands now, Kickstarter has zero incentive to ensure a project succeeds; they make money on funding transactions and that's it. "Who cares if the project is vapor? We got our money."

They could easily make an additional revenue stream out of it. Instead of just taking X% of each transaction, they can add an additional "delivered project" fee in exchange for more exposure on the homepage, social media channels, etc.
Very awesome concept and design. I completely agree with your sign up method... Have none!
How is the sftp/sshfs support on Windows for expand drive? I've used opensource options in the past for Windows and they were all pretty buggy. One that isn't so much would be one worth buying imho.
Wouldn't it be the responsibility of Mt.Gox and Dwolla to submit the required forms? Unless you are saying you think having money in Mt.Gox qualifies as a foreign account and he should have filed an FBAR.
I think there is a growing numbers if finished products on Tindie
http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq/

> How much does the degree program cost?
We’re not yet ready to announce a specific program cost, but the plan is to offer the Georgia Tech OMS CS for a total cost of under $7,000—a fraction of the cost of Georgia Tech’s on-campus program and even less than that of comparable private universities.

> The total workload is the same as the residential program; the weekly or hourly workload depends on how quickly students wish to complete the program.

This is revolutionary.

Not only is it much cheaper, the incentives are now back in alignment. I know plenty of people that could graduate much faster and get on with their lives - The schools on the other hand, want them to stay longer (and thus pay more).

This removes the nickel and dime element and all kinds of backwards tedium.
The mind boggles at this choice. Metro is extremely difficult to use over RDP. I'm convinced this must be hurting their Server 2012 sales.
Quality engagement with your friends and beyond...anonymously or with real name
Years ago, I belonged to a forum that added ads at some point. I indulged my curiosity about those ads in part out of genuine curiosity and in part to support the forum. I suspect I was not the only one. The forum owner initially made pretty good monthly money from the ads. As the forum went to hell, his ad money dropped off in a way that I think reflected lack of support more than it reflected declining traffic.
If you chase the links you end up on the Georgia Tech site about it: http://www.omscs.gatech.edu/faq.

We’re not yet ready to announce a specific program cost,
but the plan is to offer the Georgia Tech OMS CS for a
total cost of under $7,000—a fraction of the cost of
Georgia Tech’s on-campus program and even less than that
of comparable private universities.

All the content will be free to everybody, but you have to apply to Georgia Tech and pay if you want the actual degree.

You also have to have a Bachelor's degree, which is a disappointment for me. I left college before completing my BS in CS, and I'd love to be in this program, but I wouldn't be admitted.

[disclosure: my wife works in the Georgia Tech Professional Education group, which is how I heard about this]
The last time I checked (ca. early 2012), there were tens of thousands of untriaged bugs in the Moz Bugzilla instance. Add to that unresolved bugs in the 3M+ lines code base and multiple platforms supported, and the job is obviously huge. There simply aren't enough people working on such things to keep up.

It is an open source project, so there is something that one can do about such things beyond complaining.
The original version of the product, back pre-2009 was called SftpDrive and was Windows only. In many ways it has long been our core product. But as time goes on more people are using various cloud services and fewer people are using SFTP.
It doesn't really stand for anything. From Wikipedia: 'In 1995, to compete better in the Western market, the Lucky-Goldstar Corporation was renamed "LG"'.

So while it was named LG because of the initials of Lucky Goldstar, its name is still just LG (or I guess "LG Corporation").
Why not add Bitcoin? I would pay that way, because I want you to keep your profits.
That's fair. Will you try it out if we remove the free drinks for you and give you a free Uber ride instead?
To some extent I agree. Yes, I initially mistook the situation for some sort of intellectual property theft. But how could I not? No other answer seemed to make sense. Without exaggeration, I have created a dirt cheap technique for crafting beautiful cases using almost no manual labor or dexterity through the use of a laser cutter. Why would I assume Etsy only wishes to support my interests. That makes a whole lot less sense than the paranoid IP theft possibility.

Half of this argument is rejecting Etsy's unfair demands for more documentation while my shop remains close and my ability to sell if frozen on non-existent grounds. Guilty until proven innocent policy drove me mad.

Moog is an international company. In a way, I'm not exaggerating when I say all other synths are just derivatives of what they do and they have the priviledge to not give a hoot about people looking into their windows. They know they own the synth world. As a small scale assembler you can understand that we cherish our procedures a bit more as it can make or break us. But to be honest, I make everything as open-source as I can, because I imagine it going to kids like me just trying to make weird noises. When I imagine a big company using it, it drives me mad. Something I'll have to reconcile.

The "hand made" issue is almost null to me at this point. I've made a unique enclosure for a device in a batch of three. They're made by hand.
This Brendan guy just needs to switch to selling "handmade" monogrammed island clutches:

http://www.etsy.com/search?q=monogram%20island%20clutch%20bl...

(EDIT: Project idea for someone who's bored: Scrape images off Etsy, group items based on image similarity, and find obvious mass-produced items. Actually, nevermind, Etsy should be paying someone to do that for them if they actually care about the "handmade" line they're spouting.)
I tried all of that. Including Fusioninvoice, Rocketinvoice, Pancakeapp, redmine, mantis, Zoho, BambooInvoice, SugarCRM and OpenERP and many little invoice tool, but none of them offers such great UX and UI. The workflow here is rocksolid.

I didn't know of: buggenie, bugify, bugkick.

Fusioninvoice is nice, but buggy and targets ONE language only, that English. (Why don't people think about i18n and l10n from the beginning, when designing something that's going to be used internationally.)
The Most Watched Load of Garbage in the Memory of Man
If anyone is super interested in this hit me up at byrnework @ gmail (dot) com and I'll do my best to answer your questions specifically.

Hit up a few points on this thread as well.
see also: http://www.baseball-reference.com/about/wpa.shtml
Thats a fascinating thought.
The steady state at the end on a very slow setting is awesome.
I frequently hear that 8 should have a start menu, and should be able to boot to desktop. Although I agree, I've found a solution that serves me well.

http://www.classicshell.net gives a start menu, and boots to desktop.

I'm mainly a Linux user, but I upgraded from my xp drive to 8 because the upgrade was only 40 bucks at the time, and I couldn't find a copy of 7 in stores nor online.

With classic shell, I'm content for the limited uses of windows I need. And all of my programs written for xp run correctly, which surprised me.
They are "rounding the square," as Jack would put it.
Google aims to take on Spotify, seals a deal with Sony and Universal
Honestly, I'm chalking this up to Poe's Law at this point. Take care.
Or just the machine you landed on. EC2 hosts vary wildy in terms of performance.
Their data is excellent – thanks for sharing. Interesting when they take into account so much more than streaks. I would love to dive into the relation of more of that data in the future.
I work at Mozilla and many developers here are 100+ tab users, too. So the use case you describe is not a low priority. <:)

Do you have any Firefox add-ons installed? If you have the patience to identify a misbehaving add-on (by bisecting the add-ons you are running), Mozilla might be able to address the problem in the browser or reach out to the add-on developer.