skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Makeshift is a "startup of startups" - our intention is to build a series of digital products/services by experimenting with many ideas. So rather than going the traditional "let's do a startup" route, we're following the foundry model.

Paul Birch, my co-founder had been investing in some pretty well-known companies for a few years, and wanted to get back to the craft. I've been doing lots hacks, and wanted to do something around taking rapid experiments and turning them into businesses (if they worked). Nick Marsh, the other co-founder is from a design background, and was similar inspired about building a studio that builds digital products. He talks about the Eames Studio of the 21st century.

We looked at a number of hacks for our first product, and picked Bitsy because we thought it would be quick to hack (we were wrong!), had a good prospect of being revenue positive early, gave a leg up to the little guy (our core proposition as a company), and it was about enabling people that we know to sell digital products online easily.

I have a bunch of friends who could or should be selling online but don't know where to start. Being unable to price for the UK market, having to set up a paypal account, the legal issues involved, are all barriers for those people, and we wanted to make a very easy way for them to do that. With some elegance (Jon Gold is on the team), focusing on selling socially (via Twitter, Facebook and so on), and in a way that supplements the marketplaces. If you've done the hard work selling something, why give away a large percentage other than for payment processing?

From a US point of view, it probably looks like a solved problem, but in the UK it's really not. So that's where the initial motivation came from - help our friends, and people like them, make income from the digital things they make.
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I loved this site, it has a so fucking huge footer that irritated me as I could not even see the images completely that I closed the tab in rage.
Both datasets you used (iris and digits) are way too simple for neural networks to shine.

Neural networks / deep neural networks work best in domains where the underlying data has a very rich, complex, and hierarchical structure (such as computer vision and speech recognition). Currently, training these models is both computationally expensive and fickle. Most state of the art research in this area is performed on GPU's and there are many tuneable parameters.

For most typical applied machine learning problems, especially on simpler datasets that fit in RAM, variants of ensembled decision trees (such as Random Forests) to perform at least as well as neural networks with less parameter tuning and far shorter training times.
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That's a question I thought a lot about when I was 22 and getting my first round of funding, but today, at 36, I would just dodge. "I'm sorry, I'm really not thinking about that. I'm just concentrating on how to make my business as successful as possible. The bigger we get, the more options we'll have."

Maybe things have changed in the last 8 years, but I imagine that anyone you'd want to take money from knows exactly what the exit strategy of a tech startup is. Investors probably aren't screening you with the actual answer to the question.
My approach may be silly. But 2 guys who know way more about SSL than me, Ivan Ristic (SSLLabs, Qualys) and Moxie Marlinspike appear to use StartCom and Gandi.

But also see cowchases message - I'd probably use NameCheap myself if after a wild card certificate, but for the free certificates at StartCom have served me well.
After seeing some of the NSA protests yesterdays, it's easy to see Obama the college student taking part in those:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/recollections-o...

Funny what becoming part of a bureaucracy will do to your ideals
You could use a well established library. GPG or OpenSSL for example.
You could vest according to time. Although you probably wouldn't do the typical four year vest with a one year cliff in the scenario discussed here, you could easily demand that the contractor continue to provide certain services, such as x hours of support each month, to the company over a period of time (say one year). You could also vest upon arbitrary milestones (completion of prototype, launch, acquisition of first paying customer, etc.).

All a vesting schedule does is state when certain restrictions associated with the stock (or stock options) lapse.

Classification does not matter, except for incentive stock options, which are not possible here. You can grant non-qualified stock options to contractors and you can of course issue stock (restricted or not) to just about anyone.
Unfortunately breakdown for the close votes is not available like for the flagged answers. But my experience with the review queue is that 1 in every 4-5 votes is due to a duplicate.

Considering there are 58.1k close votes to review at the moment... that's loads of dupes.
In terms of UI things are looking good, I'd love to see some more custom style's as opposed to just bootstrap styles. I think the biggest complaint is the lack of padding. If you would add a bit more it might make things feel a bit better. ie. "width" "profile" and "size" headers on front page.
Same thing in safari
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This is a trend I've noticed on a lot of sites that is unavoidable but still makes life harder for some. Now that everyone has high-resolution displays web elements tend to be built at larger sizes to get the same effective size on the newer screens. However, for people like me that spend half their time on a 1366x768 laptop, the elements just look huge and little meaningful content fits on the page. This is true of sites from The Verge to the new Google+ layout to even the text size on Medium.
I have exactly the opposite impression. Reddit's commenting highs are the highest on the Internet (higher by far than HN) and their lows are comparable to Slashdot.

(I'm here because the volatility on Reddit is too much for me).
How? By voting for the other party that also supports and implements the exact same fascist legislation? I don't understand why people still have faith in the political process despite the abundance of evidence indicating it's a cryptofascist illusion.
It probably has more to do with the maturity of the framework and less to do with audience popularity (although I'm sure that is a factor). That's just the nature of SO. The ios graph demonstrates this.
> Funny what becoming part of a bureaucracy will do to your ideals

That's what I'm talking about - fundamental systemic failure.
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2 things:

1. Care to post a default so it's possible to explore? Couldn't figure out a working combination.
2. When you hit an error, would be helpful if you kept the previous selection prefilled (either via AJAX request or passing along the previous selection in the URL).
'in the UK "most of the population" want the death penalty back'

I suspect that is usually the case in the immediate aftermath of some horrible murder. I wonder what percentage of people would be in favour of capital punishment immediately after being reminded of the Guildford Four.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four_and_Maguire_Seve...
That's rather stupid. Generally, it is not the bullet that is considered to be the dangerous weapon, but the gun which fires it.

If the lawyer thinks a high-speed potato can't kill somebody, I suggest he go give it a shot (pun intended) and see what happens.
Not a big chance that the German HN version wouldn't be as Berlin-centric as the US version is SF/SV-centric, I'd say... ;)
My point is that this only works on people who should be educated to the point that it no longer works on them. Fuck "increasing conversions".
Good on you for using OpenPGP instead of inventing something else. OpenPGP is a bear to work with, but is a major step towards ensuring that you don't jeopardize your users with bad crypto design decisions.

Unfortunately, I don't have anything good to say about browser Javascript in any setting on any browser. There's a pretty large laundry list of problems with it.

Whose problems are you trying to solve with this project? That'd help formulate a better answer.
If you don't like drama, why don't you leave for a country which doesn't have it?

This idiotic suggestion cuts both ways.
You wouldn't be talking about the 2-party system in place, would you?

In other words: That's what we can observe in the US. But that's not democracy.

That is: Two parties systemically killing off any 3rd party competition (even worse, actually, because in reality, the "two" parties are more or less 1 party).
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The Irish probably could tell the states to "feck off" and have the backing of the US public. What with every american clinging on like spider monkeys to the last few remaining irish genes in their gene pool.
Yes, this is a horrible idea that sounds like a good idea, which makes it all the more horrible.

People who graduate from college have a significant wage premium over people who don't. Over the past generation schools have figured out how to grab more and more of that wage premium for themselves, sometimes more than 100% of premium for certain students.

Now we're trying to make it even easier for them to capture exactly how much of that they decide they deserve. And having the IRS enforce it.
Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted
Why Green Architecture Hardly Ever Deserves the Name
8 threads per worker on MRI? Isn't that a recipe for disaster? Or maybe I'm missing something?
Definitely a native spanish speaker here :P. Because I wrote this on an iPython notebook it takes a little bit longer to spell-check. I will try not to be so lazy next time.

Thanks for the tips.
As I scrolled down, reading each point, I began to notice something happening to the number of each item in the periphery of my vision. It took until point 5 before I figured out what it was: the circle around the number is dark grey until it gets to around the top quarter of the screen (on my screen, at least) at which point it becomes light grey.

I'm still trying to decide if this is a good idea. Now that I have inferred it is functioning as a kind of visited-link visual effect, I can leave the page, return later, and quickly pick up where I left off.

Then again, none of the points are long to read. Worse, I've left the page after finishing reading point 7 and have no real interest in returning now, let alone after enough time has passed that I've forgotten where I left off (in which case I would likely also have forgotten what I had already read).

In other words, I'm inclined to think that this is mainly a needless visual distraction that actually disrupted me from reading the piece and has ever-so-slightly nudged me toward the decision not to bother returning to it.

That would seem to fall under the category of Bad UI.
OpenVZ and Linux-VServer require kernel patches. UML does not, but it doesn't perform terribly well, and requires the user to run a sub-kernel, leading to slightly higher resource usage. It is unknown how well-maintained UML is; I remember that Linode used it in the past but they moved away from it.

Docker is also, pardon my French, more "web 2.0"-ish software than all other 3:

* The Docker website is clean, modern, and attracts. It clearly tells me how to get started. They even invested time/money in a proper logo. Now look at the other websites. They look old, archaic, too formal, and looking at them don't give me the feeling that I should try out their software. The UML website gives off the feeling that it is unmaintained. I realize this isn't a purely technical reason, but presentation is important.

* Docker feels like it has more community around it. It uses Github and you can see that it's very active there. Docker also has an easy to use image repository. Apart from being extremely useful to pull in an image with a single command, it gives off the good feeling that there's an active community around it and that it's actively developed.
Ironically, there is a high-level crypto library with sane defaults that is pronounced "salt" (it's spelled NaCl though)
Docs talk about Availability Zones, but there is zero mention of weighting -- either that it's done, or that it's not done. This is a very strange omission. Googling reveals that balancing is done by counting outstanding requests to each instance:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15789166/how-amazon-elb-w...

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.jspa?messageID=146233
Found an image: http://www.tyresum.co.uk/corporate.php
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She is not a manager. She was unsuccessful in management at Google, and if she succeeds at all at Yahoo, it will by pure luck. Her only strategy seems to be: imitate Google, and go mobile.

The only way Yahoo can survive as anything beyond a minor brand owned by Microsoft is to recruit someone with a Steve Jobs level of vision and execution. That's unlikely to happen.
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What I found refreshing about the site was that it did not make me wait while it determined what to do next.

As a user, once I have gone to the trouble of looking up my tyre size and entering two of the three parameters, having the site go non-interactive while options are filtered is not helpful, it is annoyingly bad design.

It is bad because instead of being done with my task in another second or two, I am given the new task of interpreting the changed state.

In particular with this site, the presentation and options are such that the filtering is useless. It there were 100 wheel diameters, then filtering might have some justification. But as a user, I want the path that gets me to the results as quickly as possible in real time.
Why would that be recipe for disaster? What do you think would happen?
The concept of "Good UI" covers way more than "a few quick pointers for selling a product".

Kinda like going to a page called "goodcuisine.com" and finding it's a dozen suggestions about cooking and topping hamburgers, with half the points dwelling mostly on arranging utensils, and a big persistent chunk of the page devoted to disposable plates.

Great domain name, squandered.
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I don't think it's just companies online who use "independent contractors" to dodge minimum wage. I believe I've seen it firsthand at Walmart where certain staff are replaced by contracted workers.

Next year the big scam is going to be everyone only works 29 hours. Because at the 30th hour the corporation has to contribute towards health care.
Their mobile experience is crummy. Words stacked up on one side, footer covers either part of the first page or part of the second.
Also, the super-annoying typo (s/from/form/) in the title doesn't help. Makes it even more misleading, I guess.
> This is already happening to avoid the income tax.

That's tax fraud. Call the IRS and turn in whoever is doing this; you will get a portion of the misreported funds as a bounty.

It used to be that stuff like company cars didn't count as income. That was back when we had income tax rates of 70% and 90%. It was trivial to avoid those taxes for a dozen reasons, once being that compensation that wasn't cash was not taxed.

Now, any kind of compensation [1] is taxed as income.

[1] except health care, for no good economic reason.
Then why the talk about Germany paying 300 000 € a day for violating the EU directive? ( http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/vorratsdatenspeich... )

A source would be kinda nice. Not because I doubt it's possible, but simply because I haven't heard of it.
This is the first thing I thought about too.

I have no idea what size the tires on my car are. But I do know the make, model (and year) of my car. I'd rather enter these details into the size, and the site could tell me what tyre size is recommended, and as part of that do a search for the prices.
I noticed a gender focus : why are so many Japanese MEN refusing to leave their rooms?

I found a research report on the topic which basically seems to say that Hikikomori women are probably labeled as "Parasite Singles" rather than Hikikomori, but if the two sets of youth were considered as one, the distribution by gender would be closer to 50:50 rather than the impression that the media serves to give that is is almost always a man :
http://towakudai.blogs.com/Hikikomori_as_Gendered_Issue.pdf
Not really UI feedback but "clicking on the box's below" box's should be boxes
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Modern CLJS does a pretty good job of guiding you through Clojurescript's tooling:

https://github.com/magomimmo/modern-cljs
"hide... ...in dual 2560x1600 monitors"

Oh, yes, computers can make people look so busy when really they spend all day what I am doing now.

I'm off to the shop to get the tea
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"hit in the early to mid 90's"

So did the internet. You couldn't be a hikikomori before then... you were simply a recluse. That was a psychological condition reserved for the 'crazy old...'
> But there is zero mention of weighting

It is called WRR (Weighted Round Robin). Here are some docs to get you started:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/Wei...
North Korea propaganda reel on its tablet computer industry. Seriously.
"Phototransistor IR Chip Silicon NPN Transistor 2-Pin T-1" is a great name for a part that a human somewhere needs to read and understand what it's for. If that were a piece of Computer code it might be better off being named:

Silicon::Chip::Transistor::NPN::Photo::IR

and then 2-pin and T-1 might be properties on it.

The key word here might be "namespacing". Or it might be something else.
So a diplomatic flight would be or would not be safe? Or does it entirely depend on how big you are? Does diplomatic immunity only exist on the grounds of an embassy and all points between simply make you fair game?

As in, whose plane would you have to be on to be safe? The Popes?
Last time I checked you could do pretty good with the audio transcription tasks if you have the knack for it (minimal stopping/replaying parts). The surveys usually aren't worth it but sometimes you'll get one that's only a couple of questions..
Car make / model - there's only a finite set of these. Take a look at the categories on Autotrader or something similar.
Tire Sizes - ask your local mechanic how they would find this out? There's probably a catalogue they would use.
On the "free" idea, our main principle is "give a leg up to the little guy", and we thought that one way of fulfilling that would be to enable people to have a place to sell their things that doesn't incur the heavy percentage that some of the marketplaces take. By using Paypal adaptive payments and Stripe Connect under the hood, we've managed to make it so that the processing doesn't even go through our bank account. So essentially Bitsy is a software service, rather than a payments processor. Much like other freemium models, there'd be opportunities to offer value elsewhere via pay-for services. That remains unproven.
ClojureScript Up and Running is actually pretty good. Lein I've gotten to know simply by using it, getting snippets from blogs here and there. Once I get better with it, I'm curious to see if I could use it for Java builds. It's the build tool Java ppl have been waiting for I think.
I'm misquoting you? I copied your line exactly... You can look right above and see it there unless you've edited it.
For some deeper rationale of why ClojureScript over other neat compile to JS languages like CoffeeScript, Dart (via dart2js), and TypeScript check out a talk I gave recently at the Norwegian Developers Conference, ClojureScript: Lisp's Revenge http://vimeo.com/68334908

I think the arrival of core.async makes ClojureScript an even more compelling option as it has the potential to eliminate an incredible amount of incidental complexity.
They have been - and they successfully nerfed half a dozen of ours (public facing) when they did the migration about three weeks back. Most recent upgrade added the ability for R53 to do latency based and healthcheck based DNS (with ELBs, that is), which is pretty shiny. As others have noted, it already auto-weights.
Beside the stupidity of selling fish online...

You CAN do A/B testing of sorts on the physical store too. This might break the attention of people that know that.

I guess the intention were good, and the drawings are of good quality, but otherwise the execution is just terrible.
Huh? All browsers on my rMBP upscales images( and css font-size specified in pixels )to match what the dimensions would be if the resolution were that of a standard 72-100dpi monitor.

Are there browsers where virtual pixels are not automatically scaled on retina displays?
Not sure how the 29-hour thing is a "scam". More like a "completely foreseeable consequence and understandable policy".
This is a very cultural thing. In germany, no one uses testimonials, they are often seen as either fake or bragging and a sign that you don't want to talk about your product.
The trouble with making it context-sensitive like that is, how do you demonstrate that the person deserves the lower standard?

Your question is mis-phrased. It should be stated as, "What process is due to someone who is accused of spending a decade waging war against the US?"

It appears to be to be completely nonsensical to use the gravity of the accusations against a person to decide what kind of trial (or not) they should receive. The whole point of the trial is to find out whether the accusations are, in fact, true.
1.) UI is confusing. Not immediately clear what's a button.

2.) Not UI feedback, but the data seems pretty sparse. Getting not found on relatively common sizes.

3.) I'd wager the average person has no idea about width, profile and size. You really need a way to search by make/model/year for something like this or at least a quick guide on how to read the sidewall to get the information.

4.) I'd be more interested in the type of tire (all-season, snow, sport) than the make or source website at the second step.

5.) Tires are probably not the best thing to sell via a minimally visual site. There's a reason sites like tirerack have gone to the trouble to provide tools to simulate what tire/wheel combos will look like on a specific make/model/year/color of car.

People care about what their vehicles look like, right down to the tires.
I agree completely, people always tell me that NoScript is too much of a hassle to use. But then two sentences later they'll complain about how ads cover content and distracting UI elements make it hard to navigate. I'd say 75% of the time I'm much happier with the NoScript version of websites.
Browsed with Windows Phone 7.8

I found it intuitive and easy to use. The interface reflects the the data domain it represents rather than glomming the data onto a generic shopping solution.
ZeroTier alpha on github, makes flat virtual networks of unlimited size
"We compare so you don't have too" should be "We compare so you don't have to"
Agreed - this is also another option. Perhaps I've placed a little too much emphasis on the equity stake side. This would also be a great way to proceed, with a straight royalty or revenue share option for the like of a partnership agreement.
> Only government has trained sadists with well-oiled guns.

They don't need sadist these days. Upstanding normal people do just fine.
Docker I get. What's the point of Vagrant? Isn't it easier to just download a premade VBox image and then you don't have to install all the dependencies of Vagrant? Moreover, Vagrant has opinions built-in into an image nothing like a bare OS I get in the cloud.

I use ansible to provision my box into its role.
Right on the money.

Krugman apologizing for Obama. Sigh.
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