skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that's why the EU every truck needs to be legally fitted with a Tachometer that measures every parameter of a vehicle, and a truck driver cannot legally drive for more than 8 hours (I think they can do 9 hours once per week, and they need a 24h break at least once per week as well) - after that, they need at least 8 hour break, when the vehicle cannot move. If the truck is stopped by the police,and they find that the driver has been driving over the time limit in the past 3 months, they will issue a massive, multi-thousand euro fine, so it's extremely rare for drivers to work overtime.

I knew a driver who drove for loading at a company, and because it was taking them too long, his time for a break started before they finished. He refused to move the truck from the spot for a whole 8 hours,even though it was blocking the warehouse - he knew that if he moved it even a little bit, he(and the company he worked for) could be fined several thousand euros months down the line.
This is no different except that the ROI is not money. It's a product.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5708857
OK so I'll launch a Kickstarter project, 10s of thousands of people will back me and I'll just say that I can refund their money after charging them. I think only several hundreds will request the refund, the rest is mine then?
Yep. Coupled with the fact that 32-bit applications can still marginally outperform equivalent 64-bit applications, those who have little RAM/CPU are still recommended to choose 32-bit over 64-bit.
See the project updates page[1] for an update called 'Refund Process' and indeed a 'Refund Reminder'. :/

[1]: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crypteks/crypteks-usbtm-...
The entire fucking point of this article is that they are dropping the time yellow is displayed too low.
I know they gave out a lot of refunds over the last year, looks like they stopped or ran out of money recently.
I hadn't considered the A/B issue, and yeah that can get messy. Importing a specific commit hash to the repo would be great. As far as managing dependencies locally, I couldn't say since I haven't had much experience with Go, but there exists a package manager called "Go Nuts" (see: http://www.gonuts.io/). While obviously not widely used, it seems to fix this issue. It's almost like rubygems all over again though.

What I'd like to see is a site similar to this, with a similar tool. Instead of having to upload the package to the site though, you could add a `pkg.json` file (or something similar) with application data. Every time this is committed, the site would automatically check to see if the version has changed, and then index that commit hash as a new version.

This almost sounds fun...
Alternatively, a build system that expects me to throw away the change history of my dependencies is completely cracked.

Fortunately there are alternatives (go getting a personal fork, etc.) that aren't entirely anathema to maintainable long-term development.
The fact that you could get your blood pressure to go up over a civil liberties issue that isn't even the topic of the thread is as good an illustration as I can think of for why we shouldn't have HN threads talking about political and social justice issues like this.
Making a shoe by hand is a damn lot of work: I know because I also sell handmade shoes in Etsy (and through our personal site, of course) We make custom designs for our clients, let them choose colours and style. Not counting the time spent drawing and exchanging emails and measurements, at fastest speed a pair of shoes takes a craftsman or craftswoman 7 days, with not many stops. Some corners could be cut and do it in 5. To allow for several orders at once and allow a correct mind cleanse between shoes (no-one wants to screw up at the very end!) we take 5 weeks to shipping
The main impact will be on their gross processing volume, which is in some respects a vanity metric because of their pricing model. Revenue will be impacted, but as your example illustrates, not directly or proportionately.
Sorry, that is a bad typo due to the Android keyboard. It should read: What are you using to bump (as in push) people into action?
At my current job, it seems like I am constantly being pressured into being a "systems engineer" or somesuch. The fact of the matter is, I really love writing code, finding and fixing bugs, and just generally all around playing with software. I can appreciate, and am even very interested in, things such as hardware, materials science, physics, chemistry, etc. But there is more than enough for one lifetime (multiple lifetimes!) in software, and I just find it so cool that I don't want to do much else. Don't get me wrong; outside of work I'm an amateur musician and a volunteer SAR member. I also appreciate stretching your mind, getting a different POV and cross-training, etc, etc, but as long as people are willing to pay me to make software, that's the job I'll continue to do. Try to push me into something I'm not interested in, and you'll have to find another code monkey. I'll dive into wildly differing domains, but mainly so I can tackle them better in software.
That still allows your deps to be stateful and out-of-band of the build. I'd prefer the build to be exclusively aware of version numbers in one place and let the code be version agnostic.

I'm not a Perl user, I don't consider running sed on my source code to be a "bonus".

Still better than Go though.
yes, but that is the problem with all (popular) messengers. Just look at the flaws of WhatsApp. Or, do you trust Google, Microsoft (Skype) or Apple?
I think that's kind of like saying that printing "Hello World" is the convention of every programming language.
This seems rather unlikely (hyperbole, to be frank) - those using Kickstarter are surely aware of the nature of the platform, not thinking of it as a checkout.

Unless the refund process is unduly complex, there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason why the vast majority of backers wouldn't ask for a refund.
prevented any other kinds of stories from being told well, or told at all.

Exactly my point. Jenna Marbles and Ryan Higa and all the others with millions of hits and zero production sort of prove that point. Youtube viewers watch the stories they like, rather than choosing from the least bad ABC/NBC/CBS show that's on right now.
Search vine videos on vinebit
Terrorists don't need much money to kill. All you have to do is recruit a dude in the US, give him information on how to purchase an AR-15, and the dude can start killing people at the malls or any other soft targets.

Or actually just kill people with pistols. Seung-Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech mass killer, kills 35 people with his Glock 19 and Walther P22.

The attacker is basically undetectable until he start his assault, and the probability of success is quite high. He can even use his car to ram into the mall door and run down individuals before he start his shooting spree. The only hope for civilians at that point is that a policeman or a civilian with a pistol to start shooting back.

The operation can be done with the attacker saving money for those purchase of weapons by working at his usual job. You don't need to send funds.

(Of course, if it was that easy, why don't terrorists do it more often?)
> How is it that some bugs go neglected for this long?

I think it's because no one fixed it yet.
No problem. And thanks for helping me discover http://hnnotify.com
So if your genes are bad, you give up on life? /sarcasm
not unless i'm genuinely interested in the ad.
Windows service packs were free updates, OSX dot versions are paid.and usually.change everything...
~~Maybe~~ I'm immature but it made me smile.
This is a good discussion.

You're absolutely right in describing the theory behind PGP (or GPG for the purists :), but unfortunately there is not yet a way to build a messaging service that has both features AND privacy. The should in your statement "Party B should be constructing their service" implies and expects a capability that is not (yet) possible to build. The point of my posts were to illuminate the reasoning companies make it easy to decrypt for the US government due to their exposure from in-demand content-aware features and fear of legal action.

Like you said, PGP+Gmail sucks for all parties included on a chain. Clients stop working. Non-users can't read the emails. Gmail spam filtering, ads, search indexing, and labeling all break. The same is true for PGP+Exchange, and most corporate customers much prefer Exchange features to the privacy offered to individuals with PGP.

I'm also not aware of 'more streamlined services' that offer true privacy -- please illuminate them if they exist. Services like Voltage suffer from the same root cause of reversible encryption.

So, customers have to choose: use a service with content-aware features OR use a dumb service that (currently) does not have the features. Most people choose features, and I would venture in this case Microsoft opted for features over pure privacy.

I would be among the first to welcome a way to accomodate both pure privacy and features in a service, and I encourage all to find a way. Please build it!
The last time I checked my ethics and fundamental laws, the burden of the proof was on the accuser, and the doubt was with the defendant.

That said, US business customs are hard to grasp for me. The only thing that is certain nowadays is that for everything promised in the advertisement material there is a mangled TOS clause for the company to avoid delivering it.
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(intentionally ignoring joke warning…)

Excellent plan! A trapdoor! In the harbour tunnel!

Relevant anecdote: My Dad worked for the company who built the fire control system in the Sydney Harbour Tunnel. It's got (from fuzzy memory - numbers not guaranteed accurate) 128 sectors of "deluge valves". It's got pumps capable of keeping up with only 10 of those sectors of deluge valves - more than 10 sectors of valves open means even with all pumps running at maximum capacity the tunnel will fill up with water. There's some software controlling it all which is intended to ensure the operators don't accidentally flood the tunnel. Dad knows who wrote that software - he won't drive through the tunnel.
I think there is probably a bias against electronics as being handmade, and I appreciate your frustration. I think this is just a misunderstanding, but this:

Disregarding the fact that having my shop up gains me at least one follower a day, it just so happens I don’t want Etsy to know exactly how I go about constructing my electronics and especially the enclosures. I realized this was an intellectual property issue and that Etsy was making an unfair and undocumented demand of me.

seems like taking a principled stand where a pragmatic one would serve you better. There have to be parts of the process you can document without giving away secrets. Secrets that very very very very few people would even know how to take advantage of anyway.
Wait, folks showing up and depositing millions in a go in cash not raising red flags was negligence?

That 2BN fine was leveraged for a combined failure to monitor more than $670bn in wire transfers and $9.4bn in dollar purchases in Mexico. You can bet yer britches they made more than 2bn off of all the shadiness -- and when a fine is less than the profit of the act being fined, the act will not cease.
What's the difference to my comment? I didn't make any assertion about warranties.
They are the people, ultimately, who pay for the content on those websites. Although, I totally agree that the advertising model is broken. When a blog's insightful articles are paid for by the sensationalist blogspam, we've got a problem.
I don't know about you, but I don't usually record myself while working just so I can prove it to my employer[1]. He's not being evasive, Etsy is asking for too much (it's not even in their ToS).

[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/110487/my-cus...
Yeah, that's why socialism is exported by Russia. You see: normally people would vote for security/military spending and not social care. But that's exactly what Russians, i.e. KGB do. They export socialism to the elites of countries they want to weaken.

If you study Russian expansionism since its inception hundreds of years ago, their strategy has always been the same. Russia strategy for centuries has been always the same: start weakening countries you want to invade decades before military action by the means of exporting intellectual fashions that will destroy country's defense system. They use spies and agents heavily for that. Polish kings used to be Russian agents way before Russia invaded Poland. Isn't that genius? Sponsor some crazy parties that want to cut military spending or some other that will introduce social chaos and not talk about real issues (i.e. "rights" of different groups of people, introduce heavy political correctness to avoid important topics), all the stuff to rotten country from inside first. In XX/XXI century this means helping create in targeted country via KGB socialistic elites, socialistic media, education creating weak confused people. So they will never vote for parties advocating strong military and patriotism.

So, this much better for Russia, this much worse for Finland. First thing KGB does is to make sure you (as a country) loose your common sense. Military spending when neighboring Russia? What for, right? No, we'll spend it all on help for the poor. Well, what I can say: Good Luck!

BTW:
http://www.therightsphere.com/2013/04/putins-russia-to-make-...
> a "crime" that was rooted in negligence rather than malicious intent.

Speculation, not fact.
According to the site, "Quickly and easily connect a receipt printer, kitchen printer, cash drawer, and barcode scanner. Get your hardware up and running in minutes."

So, I'd assume you print the receipt to a receipt printer that you connect to the stand.
I'll wait for 8.11 for workgroups.
No. Not only do I run "Ghostery" and "AdBlock" in my browser, I also run DNSMasq as a DNS aggregator. I then use dnsmasq.conf to alias a lot of ad sites to 127.0.0.1.

Advertising is so close to lying, that I feel very comfortable in doing this.
> let's assume that the super-rich spend the same or a similar proportion of their income on necessities as everyone else (meaning that they buy more food, more clothing, more housing, etc.).

This is equivalent to saying "let's assume 2+2=5, so you see that 0=1". You need to revise basic economics.
If I recall correctly, the private key was super increasing. The knapsack encryption algorithm attempted to reduce the super-increasing sequence to a regular sequence. What was broken was that the reduced sequence, while no longer super-increasing, still turned out to be a special case which was easy to solve.
Rippetoe is not as well respected in all circles.
Kickstarter is trying very hard to NOT back that perception. They have and continue to make changes to make it clear that Kickstarter is not a pre-order site.

"Kickstarter is Not a Store" - http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store
To answer my own questions, yes it uses (relies on) LuaJIT and there seems to be no problem running multiple Lua states, each using Terra. In fact because of the independent nature of compiled Terra code, I would wager you can create the Lua states with Terra and threads from within Terra itself. LuaJIT actually can't do this currently, you need a little bit of C code, because the callback passed to pthread_create will be invoked in a new thread on the old state (which would be invalid in LuaJIT as you can't share a state across threads like that.) Anyway I'll try it out and submit it as a test case for Terra if it works.
Thanks for that guys ;)
> Can someone from Go comment on the ability to create and manage trusted repositories?

You basically just need to throw up a HTTP-accessible HTML page with some <meta> tags that describe how to fetch the actual code with a variety of source control systems. Anyone can create their own trusted repositories.

[docs] http://golang.org/cmd/go/#hdr-Remote_import_path_syntax
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Arrivederci is Italian for goodbye. I assume the spelling is intended to be humourous.
Have you bothered to actually do any research into this wild assumption? Or, as I suspect, does it just help you to feel better thinking that 85% of rich people "stole" their money?
As someone who follows politics very closely, i found the term "Libertarian-Socialists" borderline oxymoronic. I am upset to learn that it is in fact a well documented philosophy. How i would love to have a political debate with a self-proclaimed member of this way of thinking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
who then need to go -> mt gox -> money in order to get any damn use out of it.
You really the NHS costs less per-capita in tax than US healthcare?
This launch sure hasn't gone to plan!
I don't agree with the answers you're getting. The US is a subset of the world. People into computers in the US is a subset of the US population, which is also grouped differently than in Europe. HN is in turn a subset of those people.

The US is more right-wing than Europe. People into computers in the US are fairly affluent, probably even more so compared to Europe. HN readers are more business focused and less hacker/community focused than other people into computers.

Generalizations of course, but I would bet few of the people answering you have been to CCC for instance.
I am an Indian national, based in the Bay Area for now, and until my OPT expires in October 2013.

Thanks for the ideas! I really have no concerns with weather having gone to school in New England, so that is an option. However, from my initial research into immigrating to Canada, it seems the requirements for available options are out of my scope (own >30% share of company, have an offer letter from a Canadian employer, significant amount of investment in my company, etc) in the short term. If I'm mistaken, I would love to have a conversation with you offline to find out more!

Yes, parting ways is always an option, but regardless, I want to pursue my career opportunities in this part of the world, so the plan needs to result in some way for me to be able to legally come back here.
>The Bob Moog factory in Asheville has glass windows around their factory floor and customers are invited to watch their entire assembly process.

That's because moog have been peddling the same circuits/sounds for decades, attaching massive markups to Bob Moog's name. Allowing people to see the process is just part of the marketing game.

Not that they don't sound good of course. But the world really doesn't really need any more 2osc monosynths with 24db/oct ladder filters and no interesting features. Especially when they cost $1000 and up.
Middleman + Amazon S3 + CloudFlare. Works great.
You assume it is true, and write a program that relies on it.
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I don't see this as the purchaser making a charitable contribution. Rather, it is Tim Cook making the charitable contribution by giving his time.

Think of it this way -- if GM donated a Corvette to a charity to auction off, the winner of the auction is buying a Corvette, not giving to charity. It is GM that made the charitable contribution.
I'll admit to a LOL here, but overall I didn't think this post was arrogant. This is an established mathematician reviewing the work of a another with the benefit of hindsight. Sure, he draws parallels to his own work but that's because from his perspective that's how things have evolved. I imagine an equally qualified person with different specialities might see connections to their work too.
That's a strawman, no one is claiming it is a complete waste of time, only that it is inefficient.
How can you forget to include Alex Van Halen and Ginger Baker?
Because we're your family, friends, neighbors, local shop owners and other people you share society with? Most AdWords advertisers are people running small businesses. "Advertisers" is not a separate class of entities that doesn't intersect with other people you care about being fair to. It's not morally OK to purposely spend our money as if it were yours just because nobody will stop you.
> Everyone's in that situation. If you're selling online, your host can shut you down. Your payment processor can shut you down. Your supplier can shut you down. If you sell offline, your landlord can shut you down. Your bank can shut you down. You can set up a table in front of your house and try to sell from there with cash only, and your city/township can come shut you down.

True, but in each of the situations, there's generally a lot of doable options. Hosting is a completely commoditized business with thousands of plausible options. For payment processing, there are many possible processors just for credit cards, 'show online pharmacies stay up, and many options to credit cards (including up-and-coming things like Bitcoin). 'Your supplier' is too generic to address, so maybe not there. There are many houses or buildings on the market to try out if you're able to make the rent in the first place, so that's not a huge issue. Countless banks to choose from, both online banks and mortar banks. And you may well be switching city/township in the first place when you're leaving your current landlord, so as long as you don't have to leave the country (which could be a big issue) you're not terribly badly off unless you're a local business which needs to be in a specific place.

In contrast, how many successful marketplaces for handmade goods are there besides Etsy?
Is there a direct link to the PDF available?
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strange, because copying or reading a chip is very hard (last time I heard about it it was with a electron microscope), where copying a strip can be done in the same swipe as the transaction. I think I have seen a card in Germany with a different pin for the strip and the chip.
When and where? In the U.S., 32 of the 55 framers of the Constitution, and 25 of the 56 signers of the declaration of independence, were lawyers.
Not 'even' a VC? Of course not a VC!

There are plenty of kickstarter projects that people fund because they want to see it happen, with the 'gifts' being just an extra spur.

But NOT the technology ones. The technology ones are pretty much all pre-sales, with people spending money only to get a product, indeed.

But they're presales on something that doesn't yet exist. With no contractual obligation to actually deliver it.

I suspect the tech projects have a much higher rate of failure (==not getting delivered) than the 'art' projects. But also that the tech projects take in much more $$ than the 'art' projects, meaning more money for kickstarter's 5% cut too.
> It turns out that C++ compiled to JavaScript can run at about half the speed of native code, which in some cases outperforms Java, and is expected to get better still. Those numbers are when using the asm.js subset of JavaScript, which basically structures the compiler output into something that is easier for a JS engine to optimize. It's still JavaScript, so it runs everywhere and has full backwards compatibility, but it can be run at near-native speed already today.

The problem that many people have with web browsers is that they have evolved from retrieving text to become bloated, Frankensteinish wannabe operating systems that perform redundant operations at slower speeds. It is the job of the underlying operating to execute programs, not the web browser's. Constructing a redundant operating system and executing code at half the possible speed (at best!) is not progress.