skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO, The whole reason Javascript is the de-facto language of the web is because Microsoft made the mistake of shipping a Turing complete language runtime that was not dependent on the Win 32 API and the language happened to be Javascript.

IMHO, any kind of new web bytecode standard will be immediately broken by Microsoft into an incompatible variant that we won't be able to nicely hack around and will thus fragment the market in their favor. The code base and runtime installed base of Javascript is so massive now that they can't easily fragment it.
This makes no sense. If you are concerned, don't back a project that is already 100% funded...
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Had no idea. Thanks for the heads up :)
Cook doesn't need, or get the money. He did it for charity - I don't think we need to come to conclusions as to what else he can contribute to the community. As for his motives, who knows.. Perhaps it's just for the PR.
I started off really hating windows 8, but it turns out you are supposed to use the 'start screen' like gnome 3.

I.e. you hit meta-key, then start typing - 'fir'. At this point, Firefox is the only thing on the screen. Hit enter.

You do the same to get up settings, e.g. meta-w -> 'net' selects network settings.

You can use the win 7 start menu like this, but the win 8 search is much smarter and faster.

The tiles thing is horrible, but personally, I think the start-search screen makes me slightly more productive. Less grubbing around for settings.
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Another possibility is that the developer is using this as a convenient excuse to abandon a project where they bit off more than they could chew. $28K isn't a lot of money having already put in months of work and with potentially many months of work remaining.

The acid test will be if someone fixes their issue and says "Here you go, it's compiling again. Now just make sure you handle dependencies like this to keep everything working." Will the project be picked up again?
Just because you only use the internet to watch cat videos doesn't mean there isn't critical infrastructure that depends on the continued functioning of the internet.
Yes, this was my main point here. It's difficult to get that across without writing an entire article for context, and now that ycombinator mods have edited the title its even less clear.

The founders of this project did little more than sign on once in a while to say "its not ready yet, but should be ready soon". Now they've disappeared and there's no accountability for all that money. As an investor, I would at least like to learn from this experience and see where it went wrong and what could have done better. Instead the only lesson I can take away from this is don't trust strangers on the internet.
Yet another benefit of teaching:

Some students intuitively grasp one explanation, while others will require another. I had the opportunity to have the time and students with patience, and I became very good at recognizing when a student actually gets something and when they're trying to hide that they don't (which is something that a lot of intelligent students have mastered.) This enabled me to switch how I was explaining a concept at need, which required me to come up with new explanations on the spot.

When teaching arrays to students that couldn't name a programming language two weeks earlier, you become quick at developing a toolkit of different ways to think about concepts.
I believe the wireless networking support was majorly beefed up for XP SP2.
It's not that they won't make the jump, but that they're not trying to. Videos of the kind "YouTubers" make have evolved into a distinct media genre separate from episodic television. Your statement is analogous to saying "comic book authors won't jump to writing novel-ready content" -- of course not, or at least, not in a way that implies the latter is a progression from the former.

And a corollary: genre is distinct from delivery mechanism. "House of Cards" is a TV show and Jenna Marbles videos are (for lack of a better term) YouTube-style videos, even though both are delivered via the Internet.
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Relevant XKCD: http://xkcd.com/927/

This might be one of the better feedback apps I've seen though. Very nice.
I'm kind of siding with Etsy here, despite thinking he is being honest. The information provided is not enough to tell if he isn't just buying ready-made products and etching his logo on the back. It's a tough judgment, really, at what threshold does something qualify as hand-made?
Ugly and nonsensical once you're in front of the big screen holding the mouse in the hand.
Using bitcoin as a way to launder dollars requires the ability to turn USD into bitcoin and back again, which, incidentally, is exactly what Mt Gox does.

dirty money -> mt gox -> bitcoin -> mt gox -> clean money

I'm obviously speculating here, but this seems like a logical reason for the DHS to come in and shut things down.
lol, this is not trying to be a standard
i'm building it with easy of use on mind,
A totally clean interface, easy integration tools.
And of course, it will be focused on stability, your site will run on many servers with redundancy and user managed cache of nearly everything
Unable to debate the point(s) of contention, they let their silent votes do the talking.
>Be a convenient compiler target: First of all, the long list of languages from before shows that many people have successfully targeted JavaScript.

A counter example to your argumentation:
Many people deploy products in PHP aswell, though we've all decided PHP is something we need to move away from..
I've always been somewhat confused by the homeless out in the street in Canada. I thought we had a social safety net, shelters, etc. Everyone of these people can't be drug users and people with severe mental health issues, right?
Coinbase now has a PHP Library
"money they stole". Clarify?
I always thought that patent holders cannot make money suing the little guys.
Homework vs Video Games
Yeah, but when the scamstarters are optimizing for short-term returns, who says Kickstart isn't? (Intentionally or not)
> Most kickstarter projects don't have any R&D to speak of

That's true, but this project sure did. I'm not suggesting more oversight, I was saying that the crowd's expectations should be better managed, and that maybe there could be two levels of commitment for a lot of projects. A first level where the project owners get money to prove they can pull it off, and a second one where actual things are ordered and delivered - if and where applicable of course.
Those people are just looking for a reason not to get exercise, and are better off dying around their mid 50s.

Exercise is hard. We used to have to do it, you know, to like eat and stuff. I would be willing to bet that if you grabbed a prehistoric man and dropped him into now with all the luxuries modern life affords, he, himself, would be loathe to exercise.

You have to want it. People who do "7 minute exercises" don't want anything. They can't even find value in prolonging their life, or living more healthy, or goddammit even looking better.

There is no fragmented advice, no magic bullet. If you want to be healthy, you have to work for it. Period.
The entire point of this discussion is that Party B should be constructing their service in such a way that Party A never gives them their secret. Party B would then be able to keep complete and perfect records, turn over all of those records at the drop of a hat, and nevertheless be unable to reveal Party A's secret.

Think PGP + Gmail, except that unlike usual, Google provides you with download of PGP.

The court could subpena Google, and Google could give the courts my PGP encrypted communications. However they would be unable to give them my private key and declaring them to be in contempt of court for that would be a massive miscarriage of justice.

PGP is a pain in the ass to use. However we have more streamlined technologies currently available that provide the same properties in this scenario. What is upsetting to people in this discussion is that companies like Skype are not employing such systems. We know Skype is not because they are employing one such "feature" that you mention (url-checking). They are therefore employing a system that does leave them open to having private information subpenaed.
I use Emacs, so, um. Yeah.
What do you think is needed beyond something like asm.js?

For me the limitation that stands out is Javascript cannot pre-empt.

while(true){};

locks things until some magical supervisor (which _can_ pre-empt) notices and Tells you something went wrong.

You can use workers for long operations but you can't communicate with them while they do it.

look at the example for Web Workers

http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...

It pumps out a series of primes, but you can't tell it to stop or switch to Fibonacci without killing it and making a brand new one.
Can you trust your data on free services?
With a service like that, you are protected by consumer laws and a service license, when you access your website your data will be there, and being well served!
I miss jump lists on pinned start menu items. I never liked pinning things to the taskbar because when you run those apps, the launcher becomes the taskbar item and you lose the launcher. So I always pinned things to the start menu. Now I can't do that and have the jump list.

I also miss Microsoft being the non-walled-garden OS company. There's no way I'm granting them a monopoly on what can and cannot be installed on my general purpose machines. If there's one thing I hope they change - it's this. Let me install Metro apps from whatever source I want.
An interview with the group that hacked the AP's Twitter account
Feedback for this feedback app: it does not like uploads. Upload fails with message 'Hello. We haven't been formally introduced yet but I'm Sir Red Pen. I'm sorry to say I've let you down. This upload has failed. I'm deeply sorry. This usually doesn't happen. I swear. I will reload the page for you and I ask you try again. I will get it right this time.'
Most people skim websites - they don't do a full read. And most people stop reading once they think they've gotten the gist of what it is. The large header reading "why is it free" is so far below the fold that I never saw it. I revisited the page 3 times and eventually found it by doing cmd+f and searching for "why is it free", and I could only do that because you said there was a header with that title there.

This is a huge deal to any business that takes themselves seriously, and when you bury the lead like this, it makes me not trust you. As I said before, this detail should be under the "pricing" text, since that's what every person who might use this service is going to be looking for, once they understand the basics.

And I'm a person who might have used this service. I keep a special gmail account for processing hiring applications. I'm their dream user. And I was misled so far that I don't trust them.
I think the fact that the world doesn't work like that is inherent, not accidental.

Although there are text-only web browsers. But there's a reason I don't use them.
ask yourself how facebook does it
Good question, yes they are. Free weight exercise done the right way, as described in Starting Strength, is the best way to prevent injury and improve health. Progress will be fast enough to impress you and motivate you to keep working, but slow enough to where you can stop increasing the weights if you feel that you're getting too "ripped." But watch as your squat weights start increasing, your clothes start fitting better, and you start getting more looks from people of your preferred gender, and you'll love having a body that's the product of weightlifting.
Isn't Mac OS X only updatable via Apple's equivalent App Store now as well? If it's "spammy" for Windows, are you also implying it's spammy of Apple?
Sharding is, of course, trivial on those systems - after all, they're extremely feature-poor, and have given up those features specifically to support trivial sharding.

You can replicate much of this behaviour using open source RDBMSs, but yeah, it's not what they're designed for and it's harder. If you want quality replication/clustering you're currently looking at paid-for DBs.

Being able to scale out is absolutely a nice-to-have. I'm not sure it's a nice-to-have on the scale of giving up all of the features an RDBMS provides for most people's use-cases. Further, you might find that the relative lack of data headaches you get with an RDBMS more than makes up for a little extra time setting up hot standby.

Finally, if 100% uptime is that important you're probably not relying on a relatively niche NoSQL database. If uptime on the level of Stack Overflow is good enough (which for most people it probably is, let's face it), then you'll probably find replicated postgres good enough.
Is it a tablet? If yes, show her the "swipe with the right thumb from right to left" to open the charms bar. It is pretty natural, because both thumbs should also be in the correct position if she holds the tablet in landscape mode.

With Parallels, I agree. Sorry, it was a reflex for the usual "Win 8 has no start menu" trolling.
This is a major problem for a lot of digital businesses.

Consider the following platforms that deliver vast quantities of consumer have alternatives which are tiny in market size or severely lacking:

-Google Adwords, Adcenter delivers a fraction of the traffic with continual quality issues

-Google's organic search traffic. Encyclopedias could be filled with stories of companies that built large businesses around Google's targeted free traffic, and flopped.

-Facebook, no meaningful alternatives in size and scope.

-eBay, any other giant auction market?

-Craigslist, I can't think of an alternative to this either.

-App Store, alternative being Cydia, not a great one since all of your customers have to "break" their phones.

-Google Play, a fractured market of disappointing alternatives such as Amazon's Appstore.

It is easy to say, just diversify your source of customers -- but that is very hard to do due to numerous reasons. In this particular case the platform (etsy) user discovered these pitfalls early on. Often companies don't discover this until they've borrowed or raised millions of dollars.

In some circumstances, the product itself is platform dependent (App Store or a Facebook social game.) Irregardless of the dependance, business owners and employees develop expert knowledge about the particular platform by necessity and shear time spent navigating potential and existing shortfalls. If they manage to succeed, that particular platform delivers huge amounts of users in a very addicting manner.

Investing time in an alternative is unlikely to result in the same volume and value users of users because the actual business model of the company was molded around that user platform's uniqueness! iOS users are different than Android users. A user that arrives through a Facebook ad is very different from a user that performed a search on Google. (By the way, that is usually the root of the stories that X platform/traffic/advertising is crap.)

I propose a new executive job title, Chief Platform Dependance Officer.

This is a very critical topic to every start up and internet business requiring a steady stream of mass market consumers (more market dependent for b2b.)
Literally every Kickstarter project I've backed was for the printing of a finished work. (Mostly board games and books, plus one album and one movie.) Your suggestion defeats the reason those projects were ever kickstarter, and Kickstarter would be shooting themselves in the foot to implement that.
Why are there exactly four nucleobases in DNA?
With the various shutdowns of US-based exchanges (and US purchase mechanisms for foreign exchanges), it is driving the bitcoin biz offshore from the US.

I don't think it takes too much of a crystal ball to figure out this strategy is a bad idea. Conversely, I hope all of our foreign friends remember to send a few bitcoins our way for putting this generous gift of a multi-billion dollar finance industry into their laps.
Incidentally, I transferred some BTC from MtGox to Coinbase when I heard this news. It might be safer to have it in my own wallet somewhere, but if there's no way to get BTC back into USD, it doesn't matter where the BTC is to me; I'd consider it written off.
Wouldn't you still have to explain who was paying you BitCoin, and why?
I don't know how long it takes for you to create a synth, but it may be worth making a time lapsed video of your process for two reasons:

1. It should satisfy etsy's requirements of displaying how it is handmade

2. You and your customers may appreciate the video (a little advertising)

I understand that etsy's request is unreasonable and the conversation with them, unpleasant, but I think this would be a solution. If the video is done well, you hopefully won't be giving away any secret sauce to your manufacturing process.

If all else fails, I suppose it would be time to find another community of craftsmen.
That's good to know. I've not put Stripe live because of this. It all looks great, but the inability to handle multiple currencies is a deal breaker for now.

GBP, USD, and EUR are a minimum, imo. Been doing that elsewhere since the 1990s. That's not meant to be snarky, simply factual.
I would think DHS is more worried about

(any) money -> mt gox -> bitcoin -> groups not aligned to DHS interests
I actually have been trying this technique (before I read this article) and it actually works. The biggest barrier is just forcing yourself out of bed the first time you try waking up earlier than usual. If I can wake up at 5 or 6 am to catch morning flights, then its possible. Also it's important that when you wake up you get some fresh air - after a while your brain will just start waking up earlier everyday. Thanks for sharing!
And who's to say that every other item on that site was not made by some sweatshop that churns out crates of knick-knacks?

This is a "featured item" on the front page:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/88946705/tomato-art-print-lovely...

Does the creator need to send documentation of them creating the original? Why not?
I think MS is as bad as Apple. They learned/copied a lot from Apple over the last year when it comes to marketing. Including the highly annoying "No comment".
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From this 2010 article [1] it says charity buzz takes 20% off to cover operating expenses. So this winning bidder just wasted $122,000 that could have gone to charity. I would rather donate directly and have all the money go to the charity and then call up Tim Cook and say, "I just improved my supply chain efficiency by 20%. Want to have coffee?" Any CEO would be crazy to turn down the opportunity to talk to me. Of course, I don't care about talking to Tim Cook, so I'll just donate my measly few bucks like any decent person and get no recognition out of it.

[1]http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-27/jay-z-s-new-year-s-...
Eh, I wouldn't relate it to squat strength, and it has diminishing returns. But biochemistry of the brain during exercise is fun stuff, and explains a lot of elation people have.
It's not about logic, it's about power. Banks routinely (once every couple years it seems) get caught rigging rates, laundering money, financing dictatorships or terrorism, etc... In the US, when it comes to banking it's really not about logic but about power.
What does pressing Ctrl-Esc do in W8?
Ask HN: What's your main browser now?
Firefox has added a lot of awesome developer tools lately and seems to be responding to the developer community in a great way. Has that made you switch to or continue using Firefox? Or is chrome your browser of choice? Maybe even safari or IE?
> somehow in real statistics the average age when successful entrepreneurs start their companies is 40+.

Given just this information, it's still possible that people who start companies in their twenties are more likely to be successful; but most people who start companies are 40+. I don't necessarily expect that to be the case, but do you happen to know offhand?
> Erm, yes it did. The civilized world (Java, Ruby, Python, Clojure, Scala, Haskell, OCaml) has version numbers in their dependency management.

Go has localised dependencies: you package your code with exactly the versions you need.

> So you can still build jars that "just work" even if it's some legacy stuff that you haven't updated to the latest Clojure version yet.

And with a Go project, one would have a complete system which 'just works,' complete with all dependencies, regardless of how old those dependencies actually are.

> But that doesn't excuse Go's poor package management design that decided being facile and hid complexity of the real problems (changes breaking existing code) was more important than working builds.

Go doesn't do what you think it does (probably not your fault: the article is misleading). It only pulls down updates if you tell it to. It sounds like the developer of the original code was doing the wrong thing, not using GOPATH the way it was designed, not checking his entire source tree—including dependencies—into version control. I could be wrong, of course: it's possible that he really did use it properly but discovered a misfeature I've not yet found.
I had honestly never heard about this before, what does the U.S. pay to countries that have bases in them? Any references? I'm honestly curious
Surely you realize that the reason it's being called "for charity" is that the money is actually going to a (presumably legitimate) charity, not because Tim Cook is nice enough to spend a bit of time with the buyer.
But all they have to do is threaten to sue...
Are we sure that bitcoin originated in America? Maybe they gave us this gift, and we promptly mishandled it and lost it.
Good. There's nothing that can ruin your day faster than getting a letter in the mail stating that you are in violation of this and that and you could be prosecuted for up to a quarter million dollars.
The key is to be able to swap out as much as your set up as possible with something roughly interchangeable. You have to ask yourself, every time you rely on somebody else, "If these people drop the hammer on me, what will I do?"

For example, if you develop an iOS app and Apple decides (for whatever reason) not to accept it, you will have a bunch of useless Objective-C code, which can basically be ported to another language and platform, or thrown in the trash.

Conversely, if you develop a web app on a cloud PaaS, and the provider treats you wrong or isn't reliable, you can swap out with another service, or host it yourself. You may have to do some work to get everything situated in the new environment (how much work that is depends on the service, from what I understand), but you do have a backup plan in case things go south.
A VC invests large amounts of money (which isn't their own) for financial gain. That's very different to chipping in $10 of your own money for something you want to see built that probably won't be built otherwise.
Defacing paper money is not illegal, only defacing it with intent to render it unfit for circulation is. Those "where has this bill been?" websites where people write/stamp the address onto the dollar are completely legal. Those machines at tourist cities that smash your pennies into local images are legal too; it's only illegal to destroy coinage for fraudulent purposes or to melt it down for the raw metals.
I was implying a personal decision to avoid becoming pregnant in the first place. I guess if you want to knowingly risk passing genes that cause terrible disease and suffering to all your descendants… yay freedom!? There are other options if having kids is important to you.
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Bret Victor had this talk in February 2013. Is his drawing dynamic visualization tool already available somewhere?