skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Avoiding effort with respect to discussing ideas gets you bias, which is the opposite of the point of discussion.

Avoiding effort with respect to discussing ideas that I can broadly (and efficiently) classify as not likely to be worthwhile gives me time to think about and discuss other ideas that are more likely to be worth my time. Does it "get me bias" if I ignore the rantings of a crazy person I see on the street?

>So you're basically openly saying that you are willing to comment here, without considering the perspectives being put forth that you're replying to, which at the very least seems against the spirit of HN, and more realistically is against the process of rational thought in general.

I didn't reply to the Ayn Rand comment. I replied to the comment about blind rejection, the perspective behind which comment I did consider.

"That's not a reply worthy of HN because it is mean and doesn't give any consideration to the topic under discussion" would have been a reasonable reply to thrownaway2424. "Blind rejection is intellectually lazy" was not.
It's a Japanese company though
That wouldn't make any sense. Either the code worked at some point, or it didn't.
Im a backer and they offered refunds twice to anyone that wanted it so I don't know why anyone is complaining.

This project was before Kickstarter disallowed renderings (for good reason) and they would probably never have gotten to this shitty position if they had to actually prototype it and find out how insanely expensive it would be to manufacture.
Does anyone else want to write that comment?

Fine. I'll do it.

Is anyone else irked that some rich guy is getting even more connections in exchange for a huge wad of cash, yet this is given the name (see: website name) of "charity"? When rich people give society back the money they stole, in exchange for improving their personal connections and reputations, we're supposed to laud them because "it's for charity". Well, here's a fucking idea. How about Tim Cook has coffee with a regular guy out in Montana who's never seen $500 in one place?
I agree. It doesn't have to be an actual button. The menu is important.
Google readies its Spotify competitor with Universal and Sony now on board
Starting by only giving them the amount of money they said they needed would be nice. 196 000$ of a 12 000$ goal, that's ridiculous, and very tempting to just disappear away with.
Just to stick up for my kind a little (lawyers that is), Thomas Jefferson was a 21 year old lawyer when he drafted the Declaration of Independence; good ol' Honest Abe was a lawyer and pushed for the Emancipation Proclamation; and one of my personal favorites is Gandhi.

And to stick up for the profession not just a few individuals, when Clinton lied under oath, the only real action taken against him was by his State Bar who immediately disbarred him despite him being President and unlikely to ever practice again.

Edit: Jefferson was 33 when he drafted the Declaration of Independence (credit - rqwerwqerwr)
IANAL "licences" are basically contracts (to buy a good). Them clicking on a link isn't capable of entering a contract, since it's a machine that does the clicking and isn't really a meeting of the minds. Contracts can't be unconsciensable and extreme. So you won't really be able to sue them.
While reading about this story and looking at the Etsy website my wife made me divert to this page: http://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/108070806/felicity-leather-we...

The seller BaliELF has a large range of shoes available in different colours and sizes and is based in Indonesia. They has a lot of feedback from the last 12 months suggesting that they have shipped a fair number of shoes. I don't know much about shoe making but I'm jumping to the conclusion that they are a small factory 'hand making' lovely shoes.

And yet the email to the OP states, 'Items Handmade by You' and wants him to document his workflow. The emails from Etsy seem quite buttheaded. I wouldn't think that a company with just 300 staff has to be so unwilling to engage with their partners.
It looks like the Mozilla team is doing such great stuff nowadays. I converted to Chrome a few years back and it seemed like Firefox was stagnant. But I think the competition has been good for them, they've been doing lots of neat stuff recently. I'm thinking about switching back, or figuring out a way to use two different browsers.
The tech link for Asana talks about JavaScript (V8cgi) and Erlang. Trello is primarily Node.js.
> the traffic lights turn yellow even when the yellow light has not become solid

I'm sorry, but this sentence doesn't make sense to me. Did you mean:

> the traffic lights turn yellow even when the "do-not-cross" signal is still flashing

If not, could you explain? If so, where do you live that the lights do this? I've never seen that behavior (although I'm the first to say I haven't lived many places).
I actually hoped my comment would actually spark a discussion on the actual substance of the quote.

Apparently, I've seemed to have only succeeded in flushing out the pro and anti-Ayn Rand camps. My mistake.
Perhaps they did their research on MongoDB and knew all the limitations, but thought to themselves "meh, I can solve all that in the application code", and eventually found out it wasn't so easy to handle transactions and joins in the code?

After all, developers are rather susceptible to the "don't tell me I can't do that" behavior.
Considering it cost me exactly $0.25 to send $30,000 to mtgox through Dwolla I imagine the impact is minimal.

Although, now that I have a Dwolla account I am more likely to use it in the future.
Nvidia’s Android-powered Shield console gets a price and a launch window
Not a "play"... But a common 'talking point' related by Bitcoin naysayers attempting to discredit Bitcoin.

Mtgox.com really did start off as "magic the gathering online exchange", and was a site where people could buy/sell Magic cards.

Nerds being nerds, the guy who ran the site got into Bitcoin when it first came out, because Bitcoin is interesting to nerds.

After Bitcoin got big, Mtgox became "just bitcoins", and was eventually purchased by the company now running it.
Crypteks, Inc has a few patents (mainly dealing with network security), but nothing patented for the USB key.

http://1.usa.gov/14l68Uj
I agree by like, a million. What is he calling "good" anyway? Are you looking for day long Game of Thrones marathon, or an entertaining 3-5 minute comedy spiel from a reasonably attractive girl? It's really two completely different mediums. I bet the author of this blog post loves overly auto-tuned pop music... and yellow Camaros...
http://www.blacksun.ca
Maintain your own forks of the libraries you need.

Exactly this. This is just one reason I really like to "git clone --mirror" onto my server, then clone from that, and work from there.
GitHub Pages and AWS Free Tier are both effectively $0/month services with near 100% uptime.
When I think of budget effects work today, I immediately think of Freddie Wong's stuff. Almost entirely effects-driven web videos.
> The main problem is that we just don't know how to create a perfect "one bytecode to rule them all"

It boggles me that the prevalence of the assumption that there should be a single bytecode. Not all tasks are the same. In real world computing an ATMega is sometimes a better choice than an ARM or an x86.

When Notch released the DCPU16 specification there were multiple compatible emulators running within 24 hours. After 3 days there were compilers. Supporting a bytecode can be easy. Optimizing for speed makes for a much more difficult task, but not all architectures must target the same goals.

The article lists the goals of Fast, Portable, and Safe. I would add to that list more goals. Deterministic and Efficient are two that spring to mind. I would advocate multiple bytecodes that favour some goals over others. The 8 bit AVR of the Arduino would be a good pick for a bytecode that has a light footprint that would be ideal for small tasks.

I wouldn't want a free-for-all with a massive proliferation of architectures, but at least three would mean there is a much better chance of having the right tool for the right job.
Are Neglected Smartphones Making a Comeback
Yes, the risk of losing your investment of real money and resources becomes more enticing when it's more likely to not work in your favor.
What was the policy changes?
I think it's reasonable too, but something will inevitably change about this. Government always steps in to protect fools.

Best case, I think, is we'll have some federal law requiring obvious and visible disclaimers on these sites that you might lose your money.

Worst case, they impose some kind of transparency restrictions and rules on the developers.
> What about it was more useful?

Universal search: I didn't have to choose "Files" "Apps" "Settings", etc. It just floated whatever answered the query.

Outlook Integration: I could search emails, files in email attachments, and files on disk with one query in 7. As far as I can tell, Outlook 2013 wants nothing to do with the TIFKAM search at all.

Not full screen: I would routinely transcribe something onscreen or drag something out of the search results into a window.

If there was any upside to the weird new menu at all, I could deal with these changes, but as far as I can tell it's pure regression. Windows 8 has lots of tiny technical advances, but the shell changes are just a disaster.
Also probably less phytates and antinutrients from wheat. /r/Paleo is your friend too.
Hmm, this is also very very true, Curse you the Number TWO being a prime and not poor Number ONE. The madness :0.

So maybe (5x2)+1 onwards, though wondering that any two primes +2 will alwys mess that one up.

Still all that said nothing about the said even number not being also able to be made up by three primes without adding +1 ;).
But still Wondering now how many clash's and with that it does get down to the case of:

Any Two primes + 2 would be three prime numbers and also a even number,
we all know that too be true and fact, even if those primes are also the value of 2.

Numbers are such fun, more so when you question them, learn them and respect, or indeed change them. They are still fun.
But Mongo DB being buggy isn't a reason to need to use an SQL database vs. a NoSQL store. An SQL database could be buggy as well (I still use Postgres and comparing anything to that quality-wise is just going to bring sorrow for the thing you compare it to ;) ).

FWIW, it's been spotless for us so far. Our needs aren't web scale, but they're big enough to need scaling features.
Just looking at all the wires inside the box in one photo, how could they ever think that was mass-manufactured?
This is the first I'm hearing of a connection with Sierra. Was he involved in the abuse that drove her away from blogging? (I guess I'll google that.)

I thought his prison sentence stemmed from visiting publicly available (simple GET) AT&T URL's that exposed their iPad users' email addresses. In which case, he probably did us all a favor in pointing out the sorry state of AT&T's [cough] security and management of customer data.
I've always wondered about that. Surely possesing the 'training data' (basically child porn) is illegal. Only police can posses it for investigations etc. So how can you make something that can recongnise it?
Thanks for the insight. I fully support the "build from the HEAD philosophy" for the code I completely control. Which is quite different from building stuff from 3rd party HEAD. I assume Google does not build it's kernels from kernel.org HEAD.

Looks like Google should not advertize Go as general purpose language for everyone to use? Especially the tone of Go related postings here on HN is that everyone should replace C, PHP, Python, Java, JavaScript, etc. with Go because it's better, faster, more scalable on server.
Seems likely this has to do with money laundering. Even if bitcoins themselves aren't regulated, the exchange of them for illicit goods is. While the Silk Road or whatever to buy drugs is something I can see being frowned upon, profits from sex slavery and other human trafficking or mob activities would be the real problem. Also taxation. I suspect the exchange of bitcoins for goods in the US isn't going to be as easy as some people thought.
Donations.
Sell stuff that people will pay money for.
Get a 2nd job.
Kickstarter project with overblown promises.

Really, we'd all love to do something and have all the costs magically paid for, but there's no magic solution.
Wait, are you actually offended that someone accused you of manipulating popular media for personal gain?
Not even a VC backs a project purely because they believe in it - they look for the potential return.
Go feature can be used to reference code that is not expected to change (for example, by referencing a specific tag in a github repo)

No it doesn't. Go get or import doesn't let you specify a tag of a repo - if it had the developers would have an easy way out of this situation as they could specify their dependencies on import when first importing. That's not to say this is the go developers fault, but it does highlight a weakness in go dependency management:

Go get always checks out the HEAD. They have a scheme for checking out tags only for golang versions so they have the code to handle tags etc in popular repos, but hardly anyone uses the language versioning support because it just isn't (and shouldn't be) required, and requires a specific scheme of tag names to work anyway. At present golang versioning is only used for this, and it's not widely used as a result.

Of course you can work around this, and it's hardly a showstopper - at the simplest level you could go get then checkout a specific branch with git instead before building, or fork the repo, keep local copies in your source control etc. you only have to do this once for dependencies and then they won't change unless you decide to update them.

The bizarre thing is that go get does know about git tags and versioning it just refuses to make that useful for users unless they want to version the language, not the libraries they use - I imagine this was useful in early language development, but now that they've hit 1.0 and are promising to be backwards compatible it seems pretty pointless.
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.

Until some of that happens, it probably makes sense to avail yourself of the most profitable venue and marketing channels available to you; if Etsy brings you exposure you wouldn't have operating elsewhere, use it until you have a problem. Most people probably aren't capable of replicating the entire commercial ecosystem just to avoid being reliant on any of it, and even when they are, focusing on that instead of getting their product/service in front of customers probably isn't the most profitable path. It's better to have contingency plans for unlikely events than to act like they've already happened.
It's a pretty word, but I'm not sure "Panglossian" correctly describes the viewpoints I expressed, or maybe I was just unclear. I don't think society at large is "the best", nor do I think that way about my piece of it. (It is probably also incorrect to use country of origin as an abstraction for "society I was born and raised in", but I digress.)

Anyway, the point is that we seem to disagree on who should pay for health care when, and how. That's okay :) Thanks for politely and intelligently sharing your thoughts with me.
True, it was one of those `gravity` moments or feelings about it perhaps -- You know it is there but still have not proven how it fully works, though my a physics aspect but I do like to think of them hand in hand. Perhaps another bias perceptional thought process, sorry my bad.
That second 'instance' (it actually keeps only one instance running) might not be helping in bringing up your windows. Try clearing your (startup/local) cache, it might have become really big. I do that whenever my Firefox takes long times to start - if you check in Process Monitor, at that time it is dealing with those cache folders.
And he didn't mention what percentage of those apps are of any decent quality. They're ruining the experience by pushing quantity over quality.
Apparently some take issue with my terminology, even though to classify the USA as a fascist nation is accurate.

Perhaps such language has no place here, but I'll not sit by and call a cow a chicken just to please a few geese.

Or, perhaps it is the fact that I actually gave some good advice to Mr Byrne when I said to quickly make a new one & get pictures this time?
And how many FinCEN forms did you need to send that 30K?

That's mostly likely why DHS has shut them down.
I was thinking that the rich guy buying that should give it to a young entrepreneur whose endeavor is very dependent on supply chain management (or creation in that case), since it's Tim Cook's strong point.

Real, useful, nerdy talk around a coffe.
Wireframing tools for web design
Hey everyone,

I am a junior designer at an established web software company. I am surprised to hear they use Excel for the majority of their wireframing during the design process. I am primarily an algorithm designer, but I am frequently involved in the layout and user experience process because I communicate the technical requirements to the design team and occasionally make my own designs.

Can anyone recommend a good alternative to Excel for wireframing? I am a programmer by nature, and can write javascript and html, but I want to be agile to anticipate the rapidly changing design process.

Thanks.
That only makes sense for tech kickstarters. Most kickstarter projects don't have any R&D to speak of, and anyhow many production delays are the result of the manufacturing logistics that a wildly successful kickstarter results in.

Take a look at the OGRE board game project, for example. The game hasn't changed significantly since it was published I'm the 70s, but the kickstarter was successful enough that the manufacturing became much more complicated than planned.

The great success of Kickstarter is that it's a one-size-fits-all crowdfunding platform. You can only get so much oversight that way.
Well, I know. But seems people need to be told about it in a different manner. Not every product fails due to the product itself. Sometimes the failure is due to how it is referred to.
If we had something like permalink this repo, then people who be moved to used that.
Sites that scrobble to Last.fm
Just found another iniciative about userspace tcp/ip stack that looks somewhat promising - http://www.openonload.org

Presentation - http://www.slideshare.net/shemminger/uio-final
I'm actually surprised it took this long for someone to "take the money and run".

It seemed like one of the major issues with kickstarter, and I'm surprised they don't seem to have given it much thought.
I was going to write that comment, but you were quicker. Thanks, I absolutely agree.

I would also say that the motivation for buying into that coffee meeting is puzzling. If someone can afford that ridiculous price tag they're pretty successful to begin with. Chances are, Tim Cook won't have anything meaningful to offer to that guy/girl besides the bragging rights of having met with Tim Cook.

It's kind of embarrassing to be that person. Even if I had that kind of money and a desperate wish to meet Tim Cook (why?), I wouldn't want the press to find that out.

Cook clearly doesn't need the money (edit: nor does he need to raise it this way for charity). So he either does it for ego, or he actually wants to help other people's businesses. Is this his idea of "giving back to the community"? If so, he should consider doing an office hour once a week for startup founders or something.
Yeah there is research on this, too - it's usually called "learning by teaching," although there are other names, too, like the "protege effect": http://ideas.time.com/2011/11/30/the-protege-effect/

But generally, the idea is to help students learn, instead of just yourself. So, instead of lecturing, give them opportunities to explain the material to others, do study groups, etc. Even explaining material to yourself helps you understand it better (this is called the self-explanation effect, by Michelene Chi and others). So, you can embed prompts after questions that ask students to reflect and explain what they learned, or have students blog or keep a journal about their work (or contribute to stackoverflow, yahoo answers, or similar support forums).

Anyway, read How People Learn, a free book: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=9853
yup, I completely agree, but I think since that era the structure of science research has changed to the point where examples like him are liable to be few and far between.
+1. Although one might argue that failure is not really due to the size of the project, that's just the side effect. Failure was created when they decided to use Go without understanding how it works.

Starting to build something big with tools you are not yet very familiar with is always risky.
I think she's kinda cute. If I uploaded kittens playing with string people would feel safe admitting they're watching solely because they're cute, but we must pretend that young men watching a cute young woman must solely be watching for her amazing pair of literary values and production quality.

There is an obvious blind spot relating to narrowcasting in both your examples. Both hollywood action sequels and youtube videos have the hidden assumption that they're the dominant form of media, they are our culture, everyone participates, they're what makes us, us. The national pastime, or whatever. Insinuating that they're not would get a extremely harsh reaction from those socialized to respond that they are. Kinda like religion but I'm tryin to keep on topic.

In both examples, 99% of the population won't watch either for free. You can be rejected by 99.75% of the US population yet get a youtube gold plaque for 1 million views. Given those real world facts, its no great surprise that the Venn diagram of a microscopic fraction of the US population who are Jenna fans does not have much coincidental overlap with the small and shrinking fraction of the US population who watch hollywood movies.

If your advertising message is you're the best individual example of the self described dominant form of modern media, admitting the truth that no one in the general population watches, even for free or near free, would really screw up the message.

Its a fun self awareness hack to evaluate someones worldview by asking them what percentage of the US population watches "Survivor" for example. Strongly bimodal, with the wrong answer being "almost everyone because it defines modern pop culture" and the right answer being "almost no one".

Another peculiar observation is I can walk down the street and notice that plenty of young men admire the young ladies with no hollywood production values at all
Is there more to it than just that Visual Basic is the antithesis of ML?

Nope, you've got it. This is the joke.
>If their communication is not really simple & clear about how they can be a "total" solution for a small business (which yes, must also take cash + CC's), then they will not get to mass market.

I'm not sure exactly how much clearer they can be. Scroll down the linked page, and they have a nice picture showing the Square Stand with a cash box and a receipt printer. Yes, they are add-ons, but nothing wrong with that and they do make it a complete solution for cheaper than a normal POS system.
What's next for joshu?
I saw a similar discussion a while back here in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5558802
Was I supposed to learn something from this?
Yeah... it smells a little odd, goes against the general golang development (when you have a dep, it ends up in src and you check in src... so... yeah).