skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A cool write up and good discussion but looking at the home page can maybe be insightful too. The home page can probably be improved to see a minor tick in conversions.

The "Online Inventory Management without the suck" is not a great intro. It stresses an absence of something negative instead of stressing something positive and uses the rather crude and unprofessional word "suck"

You also have no sign-up form visible on first page load and no call to action (one has to scroll a little, at least on my mac).

The "not interested" inversion of "contact us" is also pretty weird and announces that you expect people to not be interested.

The pricing link does not look like a link at all.

Then as you scroll it's just a wall of text all the way to the end.
This exactly.
We miss so much as we zip through beautiful landscapes in cars or buzz over in airplanes. Bike touring is a way to go back to enjoying life for the little things. Life just slows down on a tour.
Is it self-healing, or is more "microwavable?"
Facebook tracks your external web browsing history through the use of their embedded buttons, and links that history with your profile

Not if you log out of FB. Conveniently, the "Like" button tells you when you're logged in and the "(Not You?)" link allows you to log out of FB whenever you notice you're still logged in. Hmm, this gives me an idea for an indicator browser extension.
I would not call it bigotry, but rather stupidity. They are not the first people ever thinking the idea of separating female and men, or suggested that some benefits can be achieved that way.

Schools like to separate girls from boys, and points towards improved and safer environment. Conferences like to create women only sections, in the idea (with some irony) that it would improve gender equality, and like schools, make a better environment for teaching out technology.

I call it stupid because it fail some basic common sense. A mixed classroom, work space, or conference room is better because it increase cooperation, make society better, and switch the focus on the individual skill level rather than their sex. Schools have almost gone through this stage and fully gone over to mixed classrooms. The work space is learning the same lesson, but slower. As to conferences, I can only assume that they are looking at the workplace and fail to connect the dots.
More extensions should use fine-grained URL permissions-- far too many request access to "all data on all websites" when they could only run on their own domains: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/permission_warnings....

A way for users to restrict some permissions of an app would be good, but a UX/support problem when they disable something that breaks core functionality.
Do you really believe that Russia and China took this stance out of morality? Come on, let's not be naive here. This is a political tool to them.
Do you have any experience with the real world at all? If you need a job and have to get one, you'll take what you can get. You think the people who work at Walmart and get welfare think Walmart pays plenty? They have no options.

There is a massive power imbalance between companies and employees because they need us to expand and we need them to eat. If it weren't for unions we'd still be shuffling into the mines from the time we wake until the time we have to sleep again, six days a week. Do you think miners thought they were getting paid enough?
Some better articles:

http://www.airlinereporter.com/2013/07/ethiopian-boeing-787-...

http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx...
"Let them eat cake."
Their wording bugs me, as they show no remorse except that they did not make this particular restriction known to people before they bought the game.

Essentially they're saying it would have been okay if they'd told everyone up front, even though it's still tantamount to calling all those who jailbreak their phones a thieving pirate.
Why Microsoft's reorganization is a bad idea
My first impulse is this is stupid.
It means your tools aren't smart enough. Use an IDE, use aigrep, some tool that knows what to look for.

A better title would be "Don't use a fastening device if it fails the hammer test."

Are you don't use a tool that generates SetFunkyColumnName from funky_column_name data spec ? Or "I can't find the click handler in the .html, quit using jQuery" ?

I have been at the bottom of steep learning curves multiple times where I couldn't figure out where stuff was coming from. In most cases I got over it

Use the appropriate tools that get the job done and make you and your team productive. Tools and ideas evolve at different rates. Not all tools or ideas are implemented properly the first time, and not all tools or ideas are necessarily good/useful. But we'll never get any further if we don't try...
FWIW, even in English, a woman who you're engaged to is normally referred to as a "fiancée", whereas a man you're engaged to would be a "fiancé".

Similarly with né and née, for people who have changed their names.
My guess is an idiot product manager conflated "jailbroken" with "stole the app" and thought the feature would be a good one.
This is true, and I'm sure Guido is fully aware of it, but it's also not entirely relevant to what he was saying. Regardless of inheritance, interfaces, and duck typing, the explicit classes of the objects still do matter.

Yes, the list of [1,'A',2,'B',3,'C'] is really after all just a list of [Object, Object, Object, Object, Object, Object]. And the list itself is also just an Object.

But the explicit classes of the elements of the list are different ([int,str,int,str,int,str]), and often that actually does matter for the use case, because int and str have different interfaces, and "adding" ints means something different than "adding" strs for example. It really just depends on what you're going to do with that data, and I think Guido was also talking in terms of the idiomatic use cases for the different data structures.
I actually didn't see it like that. But now that you pointed it out, I can't unsee it.
It's strange because I have a very different takeaway than the author (or most people here).

It took him 1 month to build his entire product! And people say he should have talked to customers first. It takes some people 1 month to mock up their product and build a slide deck and business plan, etc.

His biggest failure was he couldn't market his product effectively. If you aren't funded by a big name VC and you're tackling a ho-hum problem. Chances are, you won't be featured on TechCrunch or the HN front page.

Some ideas are so innovative and awesome that they market themselves but my guess is that inventory management doesn't land in that category.
That is because official statistics use penetration as the definition of rape. "Forced envelopment" (women raping men) is not counted as rape.
I consider helping the government that way worse than letting them get the data forcefully with their own equipment, because then the companies won't even protest against it anymore, since they will be "partners in crime" so to speak.

I feel the same way about ISP's handing over data for money and turning it into another profit center.
Mishap rate might have been the a little imprecise. For the number of passengers in airliners, vs cars, the statistics are clear.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewstibbe/2013/07/08/dont-le...

120,000+ people killed in 4 years on the roads, and how many seriously injured? The Asiana crash was the first major accident in the US in 4 years. The 787 incidents have been non-fatal, and nobody seriously hurt.

I'm not sure the exact statistics, but how often does somebody crash their car on the way to the airport, including fender-bender accidents? A lot more than airliners sustain substantial damage.

Even though fire in an aircraft is a critical emergency, these 787 mishaps were only "incidents" and didn't cause substantial damage to the aircraft involved.
Just to clarify what xCon does: it's intended for use with legally-purchased App Store apps that refuse to work correctly on jailbroken devices - xCon tricks those apps into thinking that they're running on non-jailbroken devices.

So yes, the gun-jamming hurts legitimate users, but those legitimate users can use xCon to work around it.

Here's some more documentation: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/XCon
I was part of a research team (class project; never published) that did something like this about a dozen years ago.

We were specifically looking at hiring-related gender bias among different education levels. Our study showed non-statistically significant bias among those without a bachelor's degree, and statistically significant at a moderate correlation level among bachelor's degree holders. The worst were the subjects with graduate degrees; not only was it a strong relationship at a statistically significant level, it was as extreme as our methodology could detect. And it went both ways (e.g., a female identified applicant wouldn't be considered for a mechanic position, but a male identified applicant wouldn't be considered for a nursing position either).

Respondents weren't supposed to put specific information on their responses, but one prominent individual did. Our curiosity got the best of us, so after we input and calculated our metrics, we looked at the identifiable subject's responses. This individual was in charge of EEO and non-discrimination policies at a research 1 institution, and she was the most gender discriminatory individual in the study!!!
In other words, defaults are static (an in C) and initialized when the function is defined, not when it's called.
The highway also gets you places where you can't feasibly get by the dirt path. Yosef is right that you can't really do chip architecture, tool design etc. in a two-person company. (Chuck Moore doesn't count.)
It's always an employer's economy. We call it an "employees economy" when they exploit us a bit less than they have previously. But even now, what some are calling the best time in history to be a software dev, there was a startup right here on HN complaining about how hard it was to find the perfect employee and how they've been looking for over a year. Could you go without income for a year? I sure as hell couldn't.
The SEC does only occasionally enforce the laws. Nacchio is a great example for Randall Stevenson and the other telco bosses to learn from...
The article is all over the place. Is it talking about EE grads in the s/w engineering space? Because I don't see any decent coder-engineer having trouble finding a job in todays environment. And what's with the disjoint paragraph on immigration?
I totally agree, of course. I'm just grateful that someone with that kind of money decided to help out.

It's great that we should be alert to people who show signs of being dangerous, but what that should mean is we should be very quick to look into these situations and evaluate whether the person poses a real threat. It does not mean that we should toss them all into jail, press charges for non-crimes, and wait for the court system to get around to sorting them out.

I understand the desire by police departments to avoid potential liability by not taking the chance that someone who makes a joke might actually be serious. But that needs to be balanced against the right to free speech. In this case, I would love to see a civil rights lawsuit against the police. Police departments need to understand that they face liability for overreacting as well as for underreacting.
Your site looks nice. Have you considered letting people register and use it for free (with up to 10 users, and 1000 inventory items or something reasonable for small businesses)?

If enough people sign up it might be worthwhile to add additional features for premium users in the future.
What do you think of LiFePO4 chemistry? The energy density is not so great, per-volume it is on par with NiMH. But they can provide lots of current and have a very flat discharge curve and are pretty much fireproof. Oh, and have much better cycle count and thermal stability than LiPo. It is a very promising chemistry.
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That is incredibly depressing. Have you followed up to see if they reacted differently when they found out you were not a man?
Wow this is great advice thank you. By all means, if time permits please keep going.

As as an aside, I've always suffered from a lack of "intrinsic" motivation for things - hence my desire for an audience to keep me honest so to speak. But I agree, it might be a better use of everyone's time to workout the initial kinks worked out on my own first.

Thanks again.
Looking forward to the rest of the challenge. Is anyone else in the finals?
This. I was really surprised how short the timeline was from creation to declaring failure.

If you're able to build something that fast, give yourself some time to figure out how to turn it into a business!
A comment on my comment: I just looked at other news media in the USA and a sampling from countries that are close allies of the USA. The NYT article was the worst as far as censoring the relevant news, that is, what Snowden said. All other news stories were both critical of Snowden, yet covered the news without censorship.

Loud flushing noise: my cancelled New York Times subscription.
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It would be odd if more than50% were Chinese. If we are talking about worldwide populations ans statistics.
Or better yet, strengthen unions again so we can do something about the fact that the discrepancy between median worker pay and executive pay is probably larger than it was in fucking feudal times.
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The iPhone 5 uses a lithium polymer battery, and has sold millions; are there reports of safety malfunctions with the batteries in that device? Or is they battery safer by virtue of design or lower power?
Yes. Also anything Russian means totalitarian, oppressed, wrong, bad, Rambo, Vodka, Bears, etc. As a recently naturalized US Citizen I can not begin to describe how much better and dualistically simple everything looks though the RedWhite&Blue glasses.
I always figured it was because "sort" is a verb. Over time I've come to feel that functions named with a verb phrase ought to be procedure-like, in that they have side effects and return either nothing (which in python means None) or some kind of error indicator (and in python you'd generally use exceptions instead).

There are exceptions (e.g., the "get" prefix, used for getters, which tend to return values and have no side-effects), and, as with any rule of thumb, better to break it than create something ugly. But as rules go, I've found this one a pretty useful one to stick to.
I had a calculus TA at Berkeley whose English was so poor that she would respond to questions from Chinese students in Chinese.

When she didn't understand your question in English, she would make a blind guess as what you were asking about and then answer that, speaking as fast as she could so that you couldn't interrupt her to tell her that she wasn't answering your question. This would continue until you gave up.
DoE proposes to mandate consumer product energy standards on servers
So? Why should we accept a dangerous battery if there is no compelling reason to use it, just because cars are more dangerous?
"They also need customer management, order tracking, accounting, lead tracking, etc. All of the people that I could get to seriously look at Rakasheets all said the same thing."

Before I got to this point in the post I kept thinking that inventory management on an island doesn't sound like a robust enough of a solution to be of much use (I admit this is an assumption and I'm biased). What would be interesting, and something that we will be looking for shortly for our platform, is an inventory management API. We've got most of the other stuff the poster mentioned, but will most likely try to find a solution to buy for inventory management instead of rolling our own, if we can.

Good post - love the poster's frankness and willingness to admit his/her mistakes. Successful entrepreneurship is often an iterative, effectual undertaking. Don't expect to hit a home run, or even get a base hit your first time up to bat. It takes a couple of times through the ringer before you really get on track.
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Good point. However, collectd's protocol is much more complex that carbon's; it can sign or encrypt the data to prevent spoofing. If spoofing is a concern, then instead of having collectd on your systems being monitored send directly to carbon, have them send to a collectd instance on your graphite server, and have that instance send to carbon on localhost.

https://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Networking_introduction
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With a test track in the Netherlands, wouldn't that scenario have been tested fairly well by now?
He didn't provide empirical evidence because there are already resources for that. This is a personal anecdote and is being shared because personal anecdotes are effective in making people think in ways that many won't be moved to by statistics.

It's not news and it's not providing any objective data, but that doesn't mean it's devoid of value.
You can still use Route53 with Cloudflare by using their cname setup.

This doesnt solve the issue for the apex however, so we have a S3 redirect on the apex.

The key thing this allows us to do is continue to use Route53 with Cloudflare.
Actually Godwin only said that the longer discussions on the internet get, the greater the chance of someone making a comparison to the Nazis. Various groups decided that if this event occurred it was an indicator that the person who made the comparison had lost the debate and that the discussion was over.
For a car to be "magnitudes" worse (which is the claim being made) the mishap rate would have to be at least every 0.33 service years.
> Seriously, how do people in Star Trek universe survive in their economy?

That's pretty simple: they have replicators. Food shortage? Gone. There never was a real land shortage, we create that with capitalism. Get rid of money and there is no longer any reason to rent out property. Rent it out for what? If everyone has a place to stay and you can replicate anything else, what would you use money for?
"earning a seriously better life" is one of the saddest phrases I've heard. You don't earn a good life, you make it.
Do you understand that unsolicited comments on someone's appearance are not ok?
I once put this into my ipython configuration and later discovered that I couldn't exit because of it.
I think this is perfectly fine as long as foreign students are paying full non-resident tuition when at publicly-funded institutions. Private schools may do as they wish of course, but it's not a responsibility of US citizens to pick up the cost to educate foreign nationals.
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Okay HN, I knew this sounded familiar and then i remembered a similar story which was flagged and kicked off the front page. http://www.techyville.com/2012/11/news/unemployed-black-woma...

Could someone explain why one was flagged and the other not? I am honestly just curious.
Agreed, your sales pages are very, very(, very) bad. Perhaps your product didn't fail, but your marketing?
> <4 months part-time is't really enough time to spend on a business before evaluating it as a failure. Wile pivoting may make sense, I'm pretty sure that $300 + 120 days doesn't generate enough data to say anything conclusive.

There was a lot of hubbub before about calling the whole thing a "failure". I should have made it more clear that I wasn't calling it a failure because I spent 4 months and only got one customer. Instead I was calling it a failure because I was no longer interested in what it did, and I had no intention of working on it any longer.

> SaaS products like Rakasheets are deceptively expensive for customers. This is good for the SaaS provider. Your middle-priced plan is ~$700 annually

This is something that I hadn't even considered until an actual small business owner sent me feedback saying the exactly that. Previously I thought people were like me, and only considered monthly costs of products unless they were buying an annual plan. It may be that I'm alone in that.

There's also the issue of how many inventory items I would let each plan track. The smallest plan, which was $29/month, only let a user track 25 inventory items at a time. That's a laughably small amount of inventory. I attribute this to not targeting a specific type of customer, but it could also easily be attributed to not thinking it through.

> If you're low on cash, try direct sales to start. That's you on the phone, or sending email. Or getting in your car and driving, if your area warrants it. If you're really offering something that will benefit your prospects' business, they want to hear from you.

I live in a small town of less than 4000 people, and the nearest printing company other than the one I work at is an hour's drive away. That makes it hard to talk to them in person while still holding a 9-5 M-F job.

With that in mind, there's really no excuse for me to avoid cold calling potential customers. If my own printing company is an indicator, sales won't be made until numerous phone calls have been made.
HMC is DRAM, but more expensive because it's faster. It's not competing with SSDs. (I'm talking about actual HMC, not HMC hype.)
Just a fun fact, this stopped being true as of June 25, 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number#Structu...

But since there probably aren't many two-year-olds applying for jobs nowadays the comment is still relevant.
>This is true, but it should be noted that gender discrimination is fundamentally related to patriarchy and misogyny.

Making faith based statements like that and acting as though they are evidence based is not productive. There is no evidence to support feminist mythology surrounding their redefinition of patriarchy.

>In the US lack of "father's rights" is a red herring.

No it is not. A system that was equal would begin with shared custody as the default, and a case would need to be made to remove either parent's custody based on their being unfit. A system where men are required to spend considerable time and money fighting to get less custody than women get by default is not equal. The reason men have high success in getting custody when they pursue it is because they almost exclusively pursue it in cases where there is substantial evidence that the mother is grossly unfit. Have a man talk to a custody lawyer while you listen in. They will universally tell you not to bother pursuing custody unless you have proof the mother is an addict or has allowed another man to assault the children frequently. Using selection bias to dismiss valid concerns makes it appear as though you have a vested interest in maintaining inequality.

>This because the rates of rape for men overwhelmingly come from prisons and being incarcerated.

And those don't count because of what?
Is the situation really that bad? When I look into admission requirements for most universities in the West, most requires some kind of minimum score in TOEFL/ IELTS.
Indeed!

Anybody claiming to be unbiased (color, race, sexuality, etc.) should take several Implicit Association Tests - https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/
this may end up as an empty thread as SVMs are pretty simple and very well known...i'd like to say that i enjoyed the post - one hobby of mine is reading the same mathematical/technical material through different writers/perspectives