skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tesla's official statement: “We were able to contact the driver quickly and are pleased that he is safe. This was a significant accident where the car was traveling at such a high speed that it smashed through a concrete wall and then hit a large tree, yet the driver walked away from the car with no permanent injury. He is appreciative of the safety and performance of the car and has asked if we can expedite delivery of his next Model S.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-28/tesla-says-model-s-...
Yeah, agree Lua did get it better. JavaScript is very much inspired by Lua, but has the disadvantage of having more "cooks in the kitchen" wanting to mess with it.
I didn't see a point, just a bunch of facts and a smarmy, self-righteous turn-about comment. If I could downvote it, I would.

The parent comment said "Javascript is a bad language but it's incredibly useful because it's in every browser." and you just agreed with him after writing a bunch of sarcastic drek.
I was just listing aspects of Bitcoin that are "unregulatable".

Regulation = laws = rules = instructions to cops when to apply rubber hose.

1. Cash transactions require meeting in person. This makes people more vulnerable to meeting with rubber hose.

2. The value of your paper cash is diluted when owners of rubber hose print more of it.

Bitcoin reduces these threats by more than 90%.
Hurry Up and Fail if You Want to Succeed
Are you the author?

The whole article just seems to be missing the point entirely.

It pretty much answers everything with "oh but you can write a hack to work around that" or "oh there is some library you can use that plugs that gap". Whilst yes, these may be viable "solutions" for hacking something out. It doesn't refute the claim by the original article that JS is a bad language. It actually just reinforces it with yet more examples.

The only positives to take away from the article are where it highlights features coming in ES6 to actually solve some of the problems. But these admissions seem to contradict the premise of the article.
This is a widely known Apple issue. They constantly release new products with complete disregard for the previous version. Just look at the iPhone 3G. iOS 4 made it completely unusable. Did Apple ever do anything to help? Nope!
Show HN: yabs.io - yet another bookmarking service?
Perhaps you should re-read what you're responding to.

I'm certainly not complaining unless that's how you define discussion that runs contrary to your interests, in which case: why are you here?

Also nice edit :-P
Would you care to elaborate?

I don't see why 8 million people should make better decisions than 80 or 800 million people.

Or do you mean that people in the Bay Area make better decisions than people in other areas?
I heard of products that were added to torrent sites by the creators specifically to get pirated, but after the install there was a pop-up asking kindly for a donation :D .
Indeed; the US has recently seen the rise of an effective third party - the Tea Party, who are generally in favour of this kind of evil.
They were acquihired by Google. AirMail is a decent alternative though I find it a lot less stable than Sparrow, but use it because of the number of glaring problems Sparrow has that will never be fixed at this point. In the end I find AirMail a tad more usable.
I think Java is bigger in terms of the amount of classes/methods that there are to remember. Perhaps I compare them unfairly because I consider everything in the SDK to be a part of Java, whereas the things people might usually bundle in JS (JQuery, etc) I don't consider part of JS because you have to go out and get them separately. I didn't mean bigger in the sense that you need to know more to be able to use it, I meant it in the sense that it is a larger API.
So there's no room in this case where and individual would be unable to find work? Somehow, everyone will have a skill-set and the personal capability (even quadriplegic people?) at any given time to find work on demand and to change their work on demand as well.

What is your definition of voluntary, by the way? Is a person taking a job they don't want to do, but have to in order to feed themselves, a voluntary decision?
noticed in mcd, but only went in twice. My wifi thing popped up asking if I wanted to join (IIRC), and did in gorky park, but rarely ever did anywhere else - travelled a lot of small backroads and streets in moscow, so maybe I didn't hit too many freebies.
No perfect bookmarking service, here is my homebrew:

- hierarchical tags and faceted tag browsing

- clip content instead of just saving urls which mean you can save mutli parts of the content with different tags.

- oembed

- shuffle clips to recall old memories
Leak highlights risk of outsourcing US spy work
Independant App Store for Windows Allmyapps now counts 1.2M monthly active users
For me, javascript is not a brilliant language designed and descended from heaven from God (or from Guido van Rossum), instead javascript is a political plattform.

It is currently the platform which is able to spread over the biggest range of devices because it evolved from an ongoing cooperation game.

This game isn't sane, it's not efficient and the result is a mess, but it's our mess for the time being.
Nextdoor raises $60 million from Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global
Please expand your response, I don't understand what you mean when you say they are "the same thing".
1. Facebook asks for your ID.

2. You give Facebook your ID.

3. Facebook gets hacked.

4. Someone uses your identity to commit a crime.

5. Government agents burst into your home and arrest you.

Or they get credit cards in your name and run your credit score into the ground, which would likely take years to clear up (if ever).

Next up: Facebook isn't sure you're really the gender, height, and weight you say you are. Please provide full body nude photos for verification.
Robots take on Rome
It's actually something like a counter that counts starting from the most significant bits first, in the article there is a link to a comment that explains the implementation.
They need to go back to publishers and rework this. Only 5 books and I've been buying from them since the beginning.

I bought one of them, if it helps give them some leverage.
http://www.88-gong.com

http://www.startupshk.com/

http://www.hkcocoon.org/en/index.aspx

http://hkcommons.com

http://jobs.webwednesday.asia
I lived there for 7 years.

New York is a great place in general, but I wouldn't recommend its tech scene. The Meetups are of high quality (in general) because there are so many people, but most of the people at <Cool Technology X> meetups don't get to use X in their day jobs.

The VC-funded startups are thick on quantity but dogshit (on average) for quality. Most of the talented people move to finance (or leave NYC) after 30 because the startup scene is so awful: most of the founders are well-connected wankbaskets, not real technologists.
Why can't the usual comparative advantage arguments work? The USA trades with many African countries, even though there is nothing those African countries can do better than the USA - just like your colonists.
Thanks man, I've been refactoring and learning as I go on that one as well. It used to be not-so-nice not too long ago haha.
It's really interesting how Docker has become this beast, but was originally developed as a practical way to run their business. How many companies have been formed this way?

It's an great thing to point to when a startup doesn't want to invest any time into getting their fundamental product right and just want to hack together using existing and known technologies.
Generics, interfaces, abstract classes, method visibility, statics, different flavours of numbers (and primitives), inner-classes, huge array of data-structures, iterators, checked exceptions, annotations, threads...

Comparable to Lua? :)
So they know that green badges are a risk, them why they still use this scheme?
Either greed or the blue badges are not so competent.
I am sorry to break it to you, but:

1. Politicians make the rules, and the rules can dictate the seizure of the places that offer the government-free version of Bitcoin. (Well, for now the governments may not agree to cooperate on this, but the scenario has realistic prospects.) In this way the governments gets access to Bitcoin's evolution. After this, they can in time change it in wherever way they want and make it at some point incompatible with government-free versions. Mind you, that the bulk of the Bitcoin users will update their version from the most seemingly trusting source, which may be government's.

2. Don't underestimate people in this overly-motivating subject. And the motivated people can become very ingenious.

3. I am not sure if there can be a reason for censorship (a powerful actor can act in other ways against the undesired Bitcoin users), but what it is possible is to learn to filter out Bitcoin activity in particular or everything unknown in general. What is this binary stream? Encryption? Want privacy? Here's the government-provided solution that assures you (government-surveyed) privacy! ;)
"If enough people vote against them, that pretty much cuts them out of the picture."

They are pretty comfortable with the idea that most people do not care about these issues. Civil rights are a side show for the majority of voters.
I have 83 books in my order history on Amazon.com (I purchase mostly from their UK store) and none of them are available with Matchbook. Disappointing.
An iPhone can set you back 20 dollars a month. That's a lot, lot less than food. Just how many iPhones are these people buying?
This looks like a fairly well-designed format. My main concern is that this seems to have suddenly appeared out of nowhere and gone directly to RFC. (Presumably there was an Internet-Draft, but I have never seen anything about this before.)
Top 5 Mistakes Journalists Make about Sexless Japan
Say, I would like to be an astronaut. I'm thus unemployed because no one will voluntarily take me to an orbit just because I want that. Is it bad for society? Well, who knows? But I sure can find million other jobs to work at until we hit real resource limits and 100 trillion head count on this planet.
GTA Under the star in a multi-user video made thanks to Znappit App
International comparisons of corruption, such as those by Transparency International[1] may suggest some reasons why countries vary in their level of corruption. Rule of law and an independent judiciary appear to help, and I'm still mulling over what cultural factors (for example, most commonly followed religion in one country or another) may have to do with differing levels of corruption.

[1] http://www.transparency.org/whatwedo/publications
Because trying to fix a broken system from within the confines of said system works SO FUCKING WELL.

Honestly.
"Imagine dealing with landlords asking for permission to put a nail on the wall."

LOL back in the real world, it never costs a penny over the security deposit.

Usually people who cry the loudest about home=freedom live in a HOA where you need to ask the Warden's permission to plant flowers, which I always find pretty amusing. Thank god I'm free of that landlord, although now the HOA controls my every decision and waking moment...

In my younger years I found that you tend to get what you optimize for WRT real estate. So if you optimize solely for location size and price, all you get is a good location size and price. The landlord will probably be a total jerk or insane. My bachelor pad was not the most convenient and relatively small and somewhat expensive but the landlord was awesome and reasonable and fast and effective. "permitted" to paint? Heck, he not only permitted it, he paid for it. You tend to get what you optimize for.
Thank you!

Are there any non-ms solutions?
This is from 2005.

And even then it was wrong: http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/brothel.asp
> "If you're a front-end developer, at some point you were probably given an awesome-looking PDF, then expected to make a website/app that is a 1:1 representation of it. Of course, that never ends up happening and you have explain why it could never be a reality."

I'm going off topic, but as a designer and a front-end developer, I get frustrated when the developed product isn't a 1:1 representation (when sending out the work to get coded). The end result should be a pixel perfect match of the artwork. Nothing is impossible translating an image to a website/app.
>The legend of the panic, however, grew exponentially over the following years. In 1940, an esteemed academic solidified the myth in the public mind. Relying heavily on a skewed report compiled six weeks after the broadcast by the American Institute of Public Opinion

American Institute of Public Opinion, huh? Considering this is the artist who brought us Citizen Kane, I suspect a submarine job:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
I actually did just that. Gave it a custom discount code for 20% off and got zero orders. The kind of people who get their fun from making fun of other people's pictures on a gaming forum aren't the kind of people with $25-40 to spend on a gift basket for a friend or family member.

In fact, I think that was the biggest flaw in the business. "Goths" in general had no problem spending $200 on a new black dress from the vendor next to us, but balked at a $45 gift arrangement with etched goblets and candle holders. Expensive gifts are their own niche, and really need to be more general-purpose. $10-15 really was the sweet spot for a gift, but the quality would have suffered.

Another issue was payment processing. Our margins were thinner than we were comfortable with, so we didn't want the added expense of a proper merchant account & something like authorize.net. There wasn't anything like Square yet, so we used Paypal Checkout. Our analytics showed something like a quarter of checkouts were abandoned at the point where we redirected to Paypal.

My goal was to grow this into the "CafePress of gifting" where people could build their own gift arrangements from a selection of general & niche items: balloons, teddy bears, whips & chains...a bunch of things to choose from. And then they could sell their creations in their own branded store for a percentage of the price. I should have accelerated that plan, but it might have required outside funding which I wasn't ready for.
It's very good that you ask this question. There was always and always will be scarcity in the world. Everyone wants more than it's available right now. To avoid poverty we need ways to save, build capital and insure ourselves against rainy days. This won't eliminate poverty, but nor rape and murder will help removing it.

The only way to know how to rationally use resources is to do so without acts of violence. Then we can talk about how to make sure that most people have something useful to do and have enough money to feed themselves.
This sounds like an onion headline. Is this story being reported by more mainstream sources?
fixed it for you.
George Washington turned down the title of king and set major restrictions on what the president could do. He set a precedent of only serving two terms (eight years), which almost every other president followed even though they didn't have to by law. The only exception was Franklin Roosevelt, who was elected to four terms but died in office. The 22nd Amendment limiting presidential terms to eight years was passed shortly after that.

That's pretty much the only example I know of.
Just a couple of examples. Arrays and Objects are the same type of structure in JavaScript. Arrays just happen to be indexed by integers and Objects by strings. In Java this is not the case.

Another example, in Java Classes are not objects that can be manipulated, they require a special form (generics) for that. In JavaScript a "class" is just a function that has some default properties attached.
RBBAnimation: Block-based animations made easy
Ask HN: Affiliate network for private jets
We are a global aircraft charter company with offices in over 30 countries worldwide.

I am currently looking to create an affiliate scheme for our private jet business. We would look to pay a fixed percentage of profit for every charter flight that goes ahead.

I have already contacted Commission Junction although they feel our site gets too little traffic for their platform (20,000 unique/month).

Does anyone know of any networks that would fit into this kind of market - obviously whilst volume might be low, the payouts per sale could be very large.
What? And risk loosing all those people who will be forced to buy a new one because they can't find the old connector?

Ultimately they don't care for the product just the next potential purchase.
This is going to sound funny, but HOW did they get the bottom bar to (unwittingly?) bring up the mobile Safari chrome around the website when tapped? Try it on an iphone... it's an incredibly nice effect
Hey, web audio is now in Firefox! That means all the web apps that did user-agent detection instead of feature detection will have to be updated.
It'd be really neat to able to swap in zoom lenses when you might need them.
That's likely true, assuming that communications in the future will always be limited by the speed of light.

I take the opposite view, that over great enough distances only information is a viable source of trade. That is, assuming quick enough communications.
I didn't say we have to evaluate the cost in any sort of vacuum of political power, the tools are here and the tools are perfectly capable of taking into account government. In fact, the tools necessitate a governmental economic policy at this point. Government measurements often are independent measurements insofar as they are measurements done by an entity that has more neutral stake in the economic function of a nation than any constituent citizen, company or body corporate. Who is the neutral arbiter in a society without government? Added: Who else can require corporations/individuals to release correct/non-fraudulent financial data, and who else can hold them to account if they don't do so?
Ruby, Python, Clojure, Scheme, Lua, even Scala. All better than JavaScript in most ways.
> Maybe a few of us geeks in the Valley, but certainly not mainstream and appearance-conscious consumers. I imagine I'd have had my ass kicked if I wore something like that to high school.

I get your point, but using high school as an example is detracting from it. We're not in high school anymore, nobody is going to get their asses kicked for wearing something. I'm sure if the most popular guy in high school showed up with the Samsung watch, he wouldn't get his ass kicked, either.
This argument basically boils down to "everyone else is doing it". That's nuts. This is no reason to keep doing something against your own self-interest. Replace the word Facebook with texting while driving and reread your comment.
Universal rules discovered that allow anticipation of critical transitions
If you read the last paragraph in the OP, you'll notice that officer has "appreciation" for their intelligence. It's very short-sighted to assume that they are of low intelligence or have poor impulse control. Being born into poverty provides a very limited means of social mobility, so joining a gang is often a rational, and intelligent, decision.
"the truth is, they do represent the majority of the population."

Except that they dictate the choices people have. The majority of people vote on the issues that the major parties declare to be the issues. Gay marriage, not the validity of the war on drugs. Abortion rights, not our constitutional rights. It is a democratic system of sorts I suppose...
Google backs modular smartphones with the launch of Project Ara
The picture from this other article seems to indicate the same cause of fire as its precedent.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/cars/second-tesla-model-s-catch...

TSLA holders don't seem all that concerned though.

http://www.google.com/finance?q=tsla&ei=rshvUsjNCMfFwAOXLg

What does HN think? Is this just the statistical reality and not particularly worrisome or is there an design flaw that should be addressed?

Personally I understand the rational behind the comparison of the Tesla Model S with typical gas powered cars. Nevertheless, I don't see why Tesla shouldn't address the issue and make the cars safer and more reliable.
Quantum reality more complex than previously thought
If you've already purchased a hardcopy, why does a softcopy cost anything?
Well, that statement is true. You hire a statistician if you want statistics that are correct. Maybe people undervalue the latter...
How does it not blow your mind that you can write one bit of code and have it instantly available on the vast majority of devices released in the last 20+ years? Yeah, you'll have to write polyfills and hacks, and there will be a lot of boilerplate, but think about that for a second: one bit of code and it runs on phones / tvs / computers / calculators / toasters. Do you have to write it using a tool that was originally designed for a dramatically different environment? Yup. Can you still do it? Yup. How is that not amazing?

C and even C++ run in far more places than Javascript does or ever will. People using other languages won't be interested in or able to use your library written in Javascript.

Anyway, I don't particularly care about writing code that runs on every device ever. I want to write code to solve problems, and for a large set of problems Javascript inside a web browser is fairly useless. Javascript is great if your economic model is getting as many users as possible and then getting aquhired before you run out of capital. This is the case for a lot of people on HN, even if they don't realise it. However I'm a small time developer, not in SV, who programs because I enjoy solving problems and helping people, not to get rich. I'm only really interested in whether $(number of people who can run the code) * $(how much they can pay) > $(my cost of living) so that I can afford to eat. It means I don't care so long as the platform/language I choose has enough users to pay my bills, it doesn't have to be 100% of people. I realise that the industry giants at Google or Mozilla don't really care about people like me ('life style business' is usually a term of derision on HN). In a world of web based operating systems that only run web apps I would end up stacking shelves in the supermarket or on the dole because I dislike that technology stack enough that I can't be productive in it. That is why sometimes I bitch about Javascript.
The rating system is only "voluntary" in the sense that the government will decline to impose its own rating system as long as the private one meets the government's goals.
I think the shifting nature of PaaS is something inherent to the market and ecosystem, and something that should be taken into account as such.

I struggle to find a PaaS as well, but I think we should have an appreciation of what the market is like, and what it takes to stand out and carve out a business for yourself these days.

Marco's thoughts on web hosting are probably still relevant on the subject of PaaS: http://www.marco.org/2013/10/15/godaddy-mt.
I think what oleganza is trying to say here is that while unemployment may indeed exist under any system, what we have to understand is that by creating laws and regulations to fight it, we really are doing it at someone else's expense.

For instance, if an automobile factory produces cars and people don't really need so many cars, then this factory fires workers. If it's impossible or difficult to fire them, then this means the cost goes on to consumers and prices of cars go up.

The reason unemployment exists is not because there's not enough jobs. There are plenty of job positions that can't be filled because there are no people willing and/or skillful enough to fill them. The reason unemployment exists in the wild (with no regulation) is because the market needs to readjust itself to produce something people want in the quantities people want. When government interferes into this process, it only delays this adjustment.