skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're trying to make the case that if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, then it didn't fall.

If a stranger breaks into your home, goes through your belongings, and takes your prized possessions, it doesn't matter if you're well insured or if you're poor. It also doesn't matter if you're the extremely rare edge case who does not feel violated and doesn't press charges. The actual act of burglary occurred and the degree of it doesn't change based on your response.

Likewise, when a child is molested, it doesn't matter if he or she is not harmed physically. (Indeed, the psychological effects might be the longest lasting and most painful in many cases.)

Certainly, we can be thankful that they weren't physically harmed -- or in your rare edge case, that they are able to live the rest of their lives without any apparent repercussions. But that doesn't change the fact that there was an abuse of power (the other person was bigger, in a position of authority, more mentally capable, or more sober, etc.) And as I said before, it doesn't place any more responsibility on the child, nor any less culpability on the abuser.

The response does not change the act.
Well, at least they're thinking outside MySQL's box.
Skip the Post Office, Use Shyp
Care to elaborate on the unethical schemes you are referencing?
> There are countless standards in place for the
> reproduction of content on the web, and these days most
> popular browsers are quite good at supporting those
> standards.

In many areas of the world, IE is the most popular browser by a huge margin. Even in America, IE still has a 40% market share[1]. That's a huge number of users which will not be able to use modern web standards.

[1] http://clicky.com/marketshare/us/web-browsers/

> When it comes to a commercial product like Google
> Hangouts, allowing users to use unsupported third-party
> clients is a big risk. People will conflate the client
> and the service; problems with the client will damage
> the reputation of the service, and so on.

This position flies in the face of both experience and common sense.

Any serious commercial site is will support ancient, crufty, poorly-functioning browsers. Hell, if I want to order something from Amazon in w3m or lynx, I bet it would work. A customer with a terrible browser is still a customer, and maybe they are too busy managing their investment portfolio to be bothered upgrading their old Windows 95 desktop.

And nobody is going to sign up for Hangouts, miss the official client, and accidentally download Pidgin instead. If a person signs in with a third-party client, they know exactly what they're doing. They're not going to go post on the support forums saying "help, I can't find the videoconference button".

Requiring all users to install some proprietary application out of a desire for a "coherent experience" or to "preserve the service's reputation" is user-hostile behavior.
Or Adolf Dassler.
I believe we can reasonably hold them to it. You can't just shut off the lights to a product that people pay for (well, you could, but that's a liability).
Wow, so we might be less than 5 years away from pretty solid brain computer interfaces? That would be revolutionary. It would make things like Google glass a lot more viable.
It is automatic spam filter, not intentional. The filter is removed after contacting with Facebook thanks to this post.
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We're still trying to figure out the right pricing and are discussing it openly (https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/2#issuecomme...).

The risk scales with the size of the transaction. Granted, the risk does not scale at the same rate as the transaction size, but we wanted to keep it simple in the beginning.

What do you think about 1% + 30¢ with a cap?
A bit of anecdotal evidence for you:

I've tried a whole bunch of web based side products in my years as dev, most I never even launched, and the ones that I did launch flopped.

Then after reading about shipping fast and MVPs on HN, I built BugMuncher as an MVP in a couple of weeks worth of evenings and weekends, and it is my first (and only) success! It's grown organically, and I've built it up from a really bare bones MVP to a full featured web app.
What total nonsense - "customers need to help fix the App Store economy?" As a customer, it's not my job to help fix shit - if you want my money, offer me something I want at a price I'm willing to pay.

Why on earth should I conscientiously blow money on apps I've already decided I don't need just to achieve the nebulous goal of making the "app store economy" healthier? Or to avoid what this joker asserts, based on almost nothing, will be a plague of freemium crapware?

I've got no problem whatsoever with developers charging whatever the hell they want for an app, as long as they're not colluding - but to expect customers who already pay frankly ridiculous amounts of money for wireless service to plunk down even more for the sake of this guy's entitled sense of what's valuable is asinine.

"Buy more shit or this will all go away!" Bollocks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust,_but_verify Доверяй, но проверяй
What does Yoleo have to offer that feedly doesn't? Is there a mobile app in the works (or at least a mobile stylesheet)?
8 core Xeon would be good at video rendering, but as of now for VS and R# you need single threaded performance, where a 3.9GHz Haswell shines.
> Don't take pictures of kids in bathing suits.

So basically, don't take pictures of your kids in the summer.

This is insane. With my kids and their cousins, we have 6 kids in the 0-8 year old bracket. The 1-3 year old kids all take baths together when we get together and they run around in their diapers (topless - omfg!).

These are wonderful years for all of us (the glee they have running around together in diapers and through sprinklers). Not capturing these memories should be the crime.
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Hi, nice reader!! I like the pun of I read as the name of the site.

Nice template, really good work!
I attached my Fitbit to our kitten a while ago. Worked pretty well and the data was interesting. Also, now my Fitbit has kitten teeth marks from her finding it something fun to chew on.
PyPy absolutely supports generators. Python's stdlib uses them extensively.

If you were worrying about the JIT not supporting them, it appears to just fine:

gentest.py:

def gen():
for i in xrange(10**9):
yield i

for i in gen():
pass

$ time python gentest.py # python 2.7

real	1m12.956s
user	1m12.736s
sys	0m0.000s

$ time pypy gentest.py # pypy 2.0.2

real	0m5.728s
user	0m5.708s
sys	0m0.000s
To be fair, back in 1997 the internet was "almost" owned by one company in a way: AOL ;)

I have a tough time taking a lot of those old designs as "crappy" though. I mean some of them were seizure inducing for sure, but there were a lot of pages that were very readable and above all else, very simple.

E.G.
http://www.baddesigns.com/

Of course modern sites still carry the spirit in some way. http://stallman.org

Side note: A site sans MC Hammer is not awesome ;)
Because you lose excitement and creative energy the longer you wait.

Relevant book: http://executebook.com/
E-mail analogy is better. Imagine a service, which only allows using one e-mail client and doesn't allow sending e-mails to anyone outside itself. I wouldn't want to use such service.
I think it's the "if I answer this guy's questions he'll likely pop me in as a defendant in a crank lawsuit" that turns folks off.

http://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/candce/5:2013cv0...
So far, $250 for the 7.4" "EVAL" kit (from pervasive displays). A heck of a lot more reasonable than the last time I looked at e-ink screens ($10,000 for a single 6" dev kit). I'm not quite sure I grasp what it includes, but it sounds fairly barebone:

>The 7.4” EVAL kit includes the 7.4” EPD panel, a timing controller, a pattern generator and interconnect cables
I agree that web sites do more than mail order did. And can do more in the future. But the fundamental similarity is there in the convenient to buy / don't get to physically interact / slow to arrive vs having to go to a specific place / get to physically interact / walk out with the item you want minutes later.

Also I remember my mother taking out a catalog, putting the picture of the thing she wanted in the place she wanted it, then standing back to better imagine how its colors would fit in. That is a valuable feature that you can't get in a store. (Things do look different in different lighting.)
How is your current setup limiting your development ability? It sounds like you're spending money on hardware hoping it'll make a big difference. This is like amateur photographers buying the best camera and lens assuming their pictures will suddenly be amazing.

If your current setup is powerful enough to develop I'd build on it. (1) Get one large LCD. (2) Buy a laptop stand and use your laptop screen as your second monitor. (3) Buy a good keyboard and mouse. (4) Get a powerless USB hub for the mouse and keyboard so you only use one of your laptop's USB ports.

If you primarily use Ubuntu, consider wiping your Windows partition and reinstalling Ubuntu as your primary OS. When you need Windows just run it within a virtual machine.

I would only develop on the laptop. If you need to host get a dedicated server for that. You may want to buy a hosted server and let them deal with the maintenance and uptime. Hosting on your development machine will eventually cause you headaches.
Work is underway on 60Ghz Wifi, which has wavelengths of only a few millimeters.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2030041/meet-60ghz-wi-fi-the-...

In a few years we could have tri-band routers covering 2.4Ghz, 5Ghz and 60Ghz. Correlating the info from all these frequencies should provide a much better picture.
Musicians, are you using Beatdeck?
People who manage investors are typically the highest paid person of anyone in business. Very few people can be relied upon in place of the CEO, CFO in that communication. $50k won't buy you much.
Finding the Balance - A key role for Architects
Downscaling the myriad of signals from your brain to 64 electrodes controlling four spacial dimensions seems tricky. I can see that making a fist may turn left, but what prevents any other random thought of being interpreted in the same way? I.e. how safe is a bike that turns left upon twisting the handlebars left, you may end up turning right with odds of 1:1000?
Congrats on the launch!

My startup was in the private beta for this and is in the process of switching to Stripe for ACH payouts from our previous provider bill.com. The folks at Stripe are super friendly and helpful. Two thumbs up! :)
I am more interested in making international payouts and we are looking at switching to envoyservices.com from PayPal/Manual bank transfers in a couple of months and switching entirely to stripe looks attractive
Canada Post Launches AddressComplete, Worldwide Mailing Address Autocompletion
An all is a way better tool for tempered glass. Corners are always weak. http://io9.com/meet-prince-ruperts-drop-its-about-to-blow-yo...
For bulk purchases like groceries, that's great. If you're buying $12 worth of stuff, heading to the store is a waste of expensive gas.
What's your reasoning behind this?
> $0.10 for self contained electronics in a light bulb

I guess we'll get there at some point, but I'd rather prefer a $.10 for a wall-socket adapter with electronics. Much more versatile. I'd buy truckload of these and connect all stuff through it. As for lights, why not $.10 light bulb slot adapter?

> I think home automation sounds like a neat idea, but I always end up trying to figure out $10 of value that it would provide...

Fun and hackability, obviously :).
You sure it wasn't skip lists?
Who in their right mind has little kids near a protest? Saw what appeared to be a man wiping a little girl's eyes.

I don't condone violence on any level and I am all for protesting but I would leave the kids with someone I trust and somewhere safe (if that is at all possible).

If I get even an inkling unrest is occurring I would immediately get my daughter to safety (again, if that is at all possible).
It really depends on the domain:

Among consumer facing web-technologies, there's definitely a compelling argument in favor of shipping fast. Shipping fast lets you iterate quickly based on lots of small pieces of feedback. This is a really effective way to build something that fits your users' needs.

In other domains, however, it may make a lot less sense to ship things rapidly. For example, in science and medical domains, it becomes important to validate carefully everything that you are shipping before you ship, because your audience has no tolerance for rough edges. Those audiences tend to be less willing to adopt half-baked/non-turnkey products as well, so first impressions count more.

I think you should think hard about who your audience is and how they will perceive your product before trying to ship things aggressively or patiently.
I disagree that it can't be used mainstream - I think I might take some of these components and use them in ironic anger - my favorite so far is the "Input with Error".
Improved Parameter Passing in Javascript SDK
This sounds pretty awesome, I can't wait to try it out.

FYI I'm working on a guide to integrating Stripe with Rails[1] and I'll definitely be covering this, as well as Stripe Connect.

[1]: http://www.petekeen.com/mastering-modern-payments
I disagree, on two points.

Firstly, I do think there's a difference between a burglar who thinks "they're insured, I'm only taking items they won't have any personal attachment too (e.g. money) and other than the nuisance of claiming insurance they won't mind" as opposed to one who just doesn't care. And that really does make a difference - I've been the victim of credit card fraud once, I just notified by card provider and got the money right back, and therefore it effected me far less than if they broke into my home and stole my computer.

And secondly: "when a child is molested, it doesn't matter if he or she is not harmed physically"

Really? In the burglar analogy is that not the same as saying "if someone breaks into your home it doesn't matter what they steal"?

<Got a bit confused here, not sure if I posted the above alone and then kept writing more below, or... so think this was an edit point here.>

Let's say you and I were walking along and discovered an adult having sex with a young child somewhere. The adult runs off. I then walk up to the child and punch them in the face - do you think "well that punch doesn't matter"? Assuming not, why is it different if that pain is caused by the sexual abuser as opposed to a different person? And/or why is it different if that pain is caused by a punch after the abuse or by the abuse itself? You do then go on to suggest that actually it is better if the child isn't physically hurt.. which seems like disagreeing with yourself.

> And as I said before, it doesn't place any more responsibility on the child, nor any less culpability on the abuser.

First off, I hope in none of my comments have I at any time suggested any responsibility be assigned to children in these situations. I can't see where I might have, but if I have.. it was by accident.

As to culpability, well I think it's a bad word since in my understanding of it that is much more binary in this sort of situation, and yes I would say both adults are 100% "culpable".

Think of it another way: if you were forced to chose between a child having sex with an adult and the child not minding it (at the time of the abuse, who knows how they will feel in the future) or a child being physically forced to have sex with an adult and crying as it happens, would you still think "doesn't matter which"?

In my opinion, your opinion is being clouded based on the fact that both situations are still extremely serious, and extremely wrong. In either situation you and I would both despise their actions strongly enough that it would be irrelevant to analyse the exact act and try to define exactly how bad it is. But that doesn't mean there still is a scale.
It's a paid add on but maybe look at DigMyData too.
Magnitude matters.

If my valuation is 50k, maybe not. If my valuation is 1m+, probably would.
You know it's Serious when "TV Glitch" is available as a feature.
Over the past two or three decades in the United States there has in fact been a big shift away from targeted anti-poverty programs in favor of just giving cash to the poor. At the federal level, this has meant big increases in the earned-income and child tax credits and relatively less funding for housing and food subsidies and other hand-outs in kind.

The idea that people can allocate resources for themselves better than somebody else can do for them has an interesting tie-in to today's debate about what policies we should pursue to stimulate economic growth. The basic Keynesian proscription for reviving a moribund economy is to put idle resources to work through more government investment, and for many years economists have tried to figure out which investments offer the best bang for the buck by measuring fiscal multipliers, etc. But this approach assumes that a dollar of output is a dollar of output, when in reality—if we're doing economics, and not mere accounting—people often value a dollar's worth of one good very differently from a dollar's worth of another. (And a disparity between accounting value and economic value is likelier to exist when investment decisions are made by politicians, at a remove from the mainstream of economic activity.)

This suggests we should try to allocate stimulus spending in a way that mirrors as closely as possible the distribution of resources we'd get if our economy were chugging along at a good clip, with all our people and capital doing the things the market would arrange if were working properly. Greg Mankiw, the chairman of the Harvard economics department, wrote a paper with his colleague Matthew Weinzierl [0] a couple of years ago that tries to get at what that would look like. Their simple model suggests, unsurprisingly, that traditional make-work government investment programs should be a last resort: getting the same amount of money into the hands of investors and consumers who can allocate it more effectively might be, well, more effective.

0. http://scholar.harvard.edu/mankiw/files/exploration_of_optim... [PDF]
wow, i really disliked the way that news report was presented.
i think it was because the narrator ended each sentence as if it was the last sentence in the story.
The addons page hasn't been updated for a while. The nightly works fine on version 19.0.2. Haven't tried with version 21 though.
The text says "You can safely navigate away from this page while your feeds are being imported " so it's confusing some of us who have not initiated an import.

Good luck with it!
Drugs are technology
I'd imagine that detecting an abrupt change in sleeping patterns could be a useful thing to know. It definitely is in humans.
Very cool showcase of WebRTC! Thanks for open-sourcing! Got this same app working on Stackato at http://sharefest.stacka.to ! Awesome!
The documentary mentioned about his bi-polar is available on Amazon (and without permission on Youtube) for anyone interested, it's a very good insight into bi-polar and depression, worth the 120 minutes:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808482/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Fry:_The_Secret_Life_of...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stephen-Frys-Secret-Manic-Depressive...
Is it realistic that google will be the only self driving car company or even better by a large margin than others ? There are quite a few competitors today. And i think the u.s. government will highly oppose such situation, Since such situation is a clear and extreme concentration of power, seen from miles away.

It's hard for me to see it unfold this way.
For those sin pistas, "yo leo" is Spanish for "I read."
this made my day. it's so amazing in every way. divshot : good job for bringing the 90's back
Because the "I am a visionary that will change the world" is a game better played by people whose mortgage is paid off and who have enough savings to pay for their kids' college education.

Also, having a successful exit (and success in this case is measured by the return to your investors, not whether the product survived the acquisition) does wonders for your startup career.
Just be sure to uncheck the option to tell your address book about them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5827251
3000$ is a beast of a machine. Two beasts actually.

Now my rough guidelines:

1. Build your own. It is fun and easy.

Core i7 - non K part (see below)

Vt-d enabled MB (if you try to use it as a home server it is good to have the option for iommu virtualization, K parts don't have it, Asrock boards tend to have vt-d but check)

32 GB of ram (1600 is fine, ram is so slow that if you get out of the cache it almost doesn't matter how slow it is)
256 GB SSD (or 512 if you will store lots of data)

660 W Seasonic PSU (X-series) (deadly silent)

7970 radeon (Why not, there are quite a few linux games and with steam pushing to linux it will be viable gaming platform)

A few 3TB hard drives ...

Case - something spacious and silent. And we are still below 2K I think.

Monitors - Dell have some very nice 23 inch IPS monitors with pivot. It is amazing to code on portrait monitor.
ProPublic Kickstarter project:Investigating the Intern Economy
Depression lies! And there's help out there. You are not alone.

Bravo to Stephen Fry for going public.
Self-driving cars could free up delivery drivers to do other things, such as sorting packages for the next drop-off location. I can't how many times I've seen a FedEx/UPS driver parked and trying to sort through boxes for a particular stop.
Something I've wondered about shut-downs like this: why don't they sell the whole product off as an independent business? That's what brick and mortar places usually try to do before closing (if they didn't go bankrupt). I could imagine an enterpreneur wanting to take over a working product with an existing brand and a customer base instead of building it from scratch.

Seems like this business could be run by a 1- or 2-person team, which would be ideal for an independent developer with the right skills. A running product that doesn't take off and limps along might just be what these people are looking for. Manage 3-5 part-time projects like this, and a couple could live comfortably in whatever location they choose.

I suppose in this case, there were factors such as a shared backend with other in-house products, so it couldn't be extracted and switched to someone else's server. Still, seems like a shame it wasn't even considered. It would even be a great learning project for a budding entrepreneur (run servers, add features, do marketing, deal with customers).
So does financial circumstances. Someone who already has a previous startup under their belt, or even a couple mil saved from a previous successful career, will be much less likely to sell out for the cash than someone who's been living paycheck-to-paycheck their whole life.
The nature of this illness truly reveals itself when you can contrast the quotes from the article with his behaviour in a show like QI. Without knowing more about him you would presume him to be a very happy man.

My roommate suffers from bipolar disorder (and a lot of other stuff to boot), and honestly, it is as much a disease with as much rationale behind it as any physiological one. His comment about "arguing" with suicidals hit the right note.
But not only is your partial month being completely refunded, so are all your prior full months. That absolves them of responsibility for your expectation, because you're no longer a customer.
This is an incredibly moving documentary. +1,000,000.
Definitely, aviation media has been pretty kind to us so far, I think the aviation community is pretty excited about us:

http://www.flyingmag.com/aircraft/lsasport/skycraft-sd-1-min...

http://www.generalaviationnews.com/2013/05/skycraft-begins-p...

http://www.aopa.org/News-and-Video/All-News/2013/May/29/Skyc...
The Value of Balanced Criticism