skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how you connected Javascript with that particular start-up mentality. "Solving problems and helping people" as a development approach is platform agnostic; if you wanted to do that through the web then hey, you would probably use Javascript to accomplish that.
Hi -

Really appreciate your comment. My startup, Nulu, is servicing Latin America with an English learning product with daily news content. Something you mentioned is that Apple makes no effort to cater to those who have no credit cards. Can you tell me a little more about how you and others would prefer to purchase devices and apps? How about products and services over the web?

I'm really quite interested as we're facing the same challenges you're speaking about.
That's one way to observe it. I like to look at it as devices my users will expect to use my software on.
This can not happen because of licenses afaik.
If stories like this one intrigue you, you should check out Joseph Campbell's myth-busting at http://mediamythalert.wordpress.com and buy his book: http://academic2.american.edu/~wjc/mythsbook/.
As for why unemployment exists in the US... Please factor in illegal employment created by government criminalizing drugs and other things (prostitution or gambling, for instance). Factor in minimum wage, which allows some people to earn more at the expense of those who are not employed at all. Factor in military men coming back from wars not being able to find jobs, because government used them and threw away. Factor in people who are not able to start certain businesses because it's expensive to obtain licences. So it's not just restrictions on firing people. It's so much more.
I had David Flanagan's O'Reilly Jquery Pocket Reference show up, but it was $2.99 vs $8.49.

The only other one was a Charles Williams novel which was $2.99 vs $7.99.

The deals are a little anemic. A $5 discount just seems weak. As was mentioned above, this is very nearly full price already. In fact, there are used paperback copies available for $2.09 from the Amazon Sellers.

So far, I'm pretty underwhelmed. Just a quick browse through the available books, the pickings are pretty slim. Lots of pulp novels, not a lot of newer stuff.

It's a step in the right direction, but it isn't really there yet. I'm hoping Amazon can show publishers the light.
This article really just tells the story that when there is a fixed supply of something, and demand increases, price increases of that thing. In some cases people have that thing stored in their attic and forget about it, in which case they get a pleasant surprise that they now can trade it for a greater value than they first purchased it for (assuming there is liquidity in the market).

Granted - the speed of the price increase of Bitcoin is very impressive - other examples from history:

- Man buys $27 of Gold Coins, finds they're now worth $886K

- Man buys $27 of Tulips, finds they're now worth $886K

- Man buys $27 of Railroad shares, finds they're now worth
$887K

- Man buys $27 of (insert .com boom company) Shares, finds they're now worth $886K

- Man buy $27 of Beanie Babies, finds they're now worth $886K
Maybe monad - like this one I wrote? http://truffles.me.uk/playing-with-es6-generators-to-make-a-.... FYI - I'm sure you're not trying to be, but you're coming off as terribly condescending...

Yes: we disagree. I write 3 lines where others see a need for new language features.
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> And you expect the battery to not died after 3 years of using it? Come on!

On the other hand, if battery degradation after the warranty period is so predictable, then they could have built the phone to take swappable batteries. Otherwise their pretty much guilty as charged of planned obsolescence.
Only this year Bitcoin price went up from $14 to $200 and counting. The all-time high $266 (this April) can be reached once again before Christmas.
TAAS - Tumblr as a Service.
Ahhh. The past always burns. You live and you learn.
I'm on OSX. I tried some different flags but I've obviously missed something.

/Applications/Google\ Chrome\ Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome\ Canary --no-sandbox --enable-webgl --enable-experimental-webgl
Heh, I suppose I was one of the early adopters of this one... IIRC, I have been using this since 2010 or so. This is one of the first FF addons (along with Adblock and Stylish) that gets installed on any new FF installation for me. Wonderful utility, thanks Florian!

I think I emailed him at some point if it would be possible for him to offer this for Yahoo! Mail as well. Since then, Yahoo have modified their own UX for the better, but the request to extend this to Yahoo mail still stands from my end (pretty please, Florian) :-)
India has a highly developed bureaucracy, which is indeed inefficient and inflexible. But there is a way around it, bribery.

Actually though, high degrees of automation make bribery hard. You cant bribe a computer program.
Publishers/authors have to agree to it.
It is is you want to retain inefficient people as paying customers.
Perhaps there's something peculiar to where you live, but I've never felt I needed to buy a house, and I have kids and pets, and I'm not shy about putting nails in the walls either.

'Brits buy, Germans rent' http://www.theguardian.com/money/2011/mar/19/brits-buy-germa...
At least they exist. I think they are great even though I do not agree with all their positions. If anything, different groups of these don't necessarily agree on all points.

they are great because members from both parties are scared of them. they are great because members from both parties attempt to silence them.

My only concern is, where are the true grassroots groups from the left? OWS was manufactured. Tea Party suffers from attempts by monied interests attempting to take over but for the most part individual groups have shown resilience to that. Don't get me wrong, they have their loons but all political groups do.

We need to unsettle Washington more and more. Washington knows this, evident mostly by the abuses of the IRS, but the FBI and NSA are not far behind.
Inline iframe content is a fascinating addition. Anyone have any further documention on it? I'm guessing that it's a viable alternative to using xmlhttprequests to update page content, which is really rather neat.
That is true. I think whatsapp is trying to avoid confusing SIM-less users , but in the bargain is missing out on potential users, who might want to use whatsapp on their tablet rather than their cellphone.
I guess you mean why every doctor doesn't own 2-3 of these, because battery won't last a day...
There are plenty of very bureaucratic nations that are also very corrupt. India is actually one of those, as are China and Russia.

It's about accountability. Where the bureaucrats do not feel accountable to the public, this undermines the sense of responsibility. In China and other communist or totalitarian countries, such as many countries in the Middle East, the bureaucrats are part of the ruling political class. They feel no particular responsibility to the people at all and therefore there is no tradition of public service.

I suspect this is also partly the case in India, with it's system of political patronage, but I'm not as familiar with it as China or the Middle East.
This will be made difficult by people in your friends list using photos of cartoon characters, possessions, family members, significant others etc. as their profile photos.

If they go further and use photos that people are tagged in, then it also has problems of people being tagged in photos they are not present in to get their attention.

For example, in my friends list only around 70% of people have photos of themselves as their profile picture. Boy/Girlfriends and babies are the next most common picture.

Even if you recognise the specific picture, it might not be helpful. For example, two of my friends are dating, and use the same picture with both of them in it for their Facebook profile pictures.
KDE is further along than Unity but still needs a little development to be perfect:

http://plasma-active.org/
For me, "how to fix email" is to get my nmh setup set up again since moving computers...
Except there are many more people who earned a lot on Bitcoin purposefully, not by accident.
I find it irritating that Mozilla now herds its Firefox users toward the Stub installer, and not the full offline-install redistributable binary.

The actual download itself is available on the "Systems & Languages" page:

> https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/

This kind of download is important, when you want to try out a new release, without committing yourself to it. For example, let's say you want to load it up in a VM, without contaminating your normal environment.

Googling for things like "firefox standalone redistributable offline install" are a road to nowhere.

You sort of just have to "know" that "Download Firefox in your language" means "Download the standalone installer, and not the stub installer". They don't explain this, or make it obvious that this is how you can get a copy of a static binary for predictable results.
Actually when I posted it I was honestly unaware if that was ES6 Javascript or just Coffescript or something. People seem to throw them all about interchangeably which is very confusing to people like me who don't follow Javascript development.
I wish you wouldn't bitch about it at such length with a point that barely makes any sense. 'Only SV posers use JS". Everyone who has a computer, whether handheld or a laptop or whatever, has a browser. There's your distribution. How you blamed its problems on startup mentality I don't even know how you got there.
You can get all the full installer files on the ftp.
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This article briefly mentions the Silk Road "bust"; wasn't there much speculation that they could not actually seize his money because of the crypto nature? Does that mean they got his key?
In 5 years it'll become world currency and in 10 years all other currencies will hyperinflate relative to it and will be abandoned. Gold will go down too as more people will learn that Bitcoin is more flexible way of "storing wealth".
This is an excellent service/Chrome extension that I have been proudly been using for over two years (I think...) I donated then and I will donate now again. Keep up the great work. It is wonderful.

edit: two years
I developed a patch that added the VAO WebGL extensions earlier this year and it's finally out there! So. Cool. And everyone at mozilla is really helpful if you're thinking about contributing for the first time.
Motorola’s open-source hardware phone
It is inspired by msgpack. If you read the RFC then you will see that the authors like msgpack but have some different requirements.
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He is spot on about how bad EHR UI's are. We really need some people who know something about user friendly UI's to release a good EHR.
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Reversible always comes up when asked what makes it better. Always reversible. Sometimes there's some other thing, but you can count on reversible.

How hard it is to feel which way you're holding the USB cable? They are often asymmetrically designed, you know?

I can do it half asleep in pitch dark.

If someone can't plug in a cable in the right way, I seriously doubt they should be using a smart phone in the first place... or any technology more sophisticated than a pointy stick.
I don't think that is ultimately going to satisfy the EU. I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple being required to bundle these with the devices.
(Disclaimer: I work for Mashape). There are tools/services that help address this like Mashape, IO Docs, Swagger, etc.
> Languages do no "offer" browsers. Browsers offer languages.

You misread? I said it offers a low barrier to entry. I'm well aware of Javascript's relation to the browser, or Dart's in Dartium as a counter example.

> It's because people want to deploy to browsers and there are no alternatives.

Flash? Java? C# (Silverlight)? Dart on Dartium? Native Client on Chrome? Some have came and went, some aren't catching on.

> This sounds like something from Ministry of Truth in 1984. We're stuck with a single language, with no proper way to bypass it. The "alternatives" are ugly hacks that still revolve around the same language, have most of the same problems, then add some on top and make development tool-chains orders of magnitude more complex. How on earth this is freedom?

So propose an alternative... Native Client in every browser perhaps? I wouldn't be opposed. Or is there another language you'd prefer? Dartium is here, you can test it today. https://www.dartlang.org/tools/dartium/

> This sounds like something from Ministry of Truth in 1984.

Freedom, as in low barrier to entry and shipping an app. And certainly more freedom than MS, Oracle or Apple offer with their solutions.

What platform makes distributing to users easier, and still free from corporate control?
Or XP (no media framework api)

But youtube encodes popular videos into the native firefox formats.
Wow, a lot of these are things I would do myself (remove the styled font garbage, the hidden email addresses, ads, bring back the good compose window, cleaner print). I have doubts about a browser extension modifying a page working long term, though. Especially when they remove ads and thus place themselves as a negative to Google. I'm more tempted to just switch to an email client.
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>> PS: Attachment icons would be real nice, though, I love that feature.

IIRC, there is an option in gmelius to opt for a GMail style of MS-style icon for attachments.
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Don't be shitty, you know the idea is that you CAN set one up and use the same features, or you can freely switch providers. Try that with Facebook. It's like using AOL or something.
no evidence offered, no benchmarks, no citations, nothing. not even a personal anecdote(maybe "i used to be able to use the phone all day on 1 charge, but now it barely lasts past lunch.."?). no discussion of how product life cycles work. no discussion of how r&d is planned. i don't even like apple, but this is a bit much..
IANA Sociologist! However, I think culture, history, and habit are more important than economics in generating the phenomenon you describe. It will be difficult for any polity to transfer from one corruption regime to another.

My theory is that in USA big corruption drives out little corruption. We have the systems in place for massive transfers from the public to the bureaucracy, to government vendors and their lobbyists, to the "elect". (Which transfers are "leaky": lots of money is extracted at each step, but there's still plenty left over.) Those systems are jealous, and they punish nonconformity. Individuals may only be "entrepreneurial" in approved ways; e.g. cops may not take bribes on the side of the road, but they're encouraged to feather their nests through forfeiture and hardball union tactics. Lawmakers can't just stuff fat stacks of bribery cash into their refrigerators, but they're totally free to sign up for sweetheart "investment" deals. Then again, there is basically nothing that officials at the Treasury Department aren't allowed to do. Maybe that's the exception that "proves" the rule?

The system is "superior" to China's, for example, because there the extensive low-level corruption focuses attention on corruption on every level. If the "communist" Grand Poobahs don't get a handle on the low-level stuff the whole edifice might come crashing down around them.
"Texting while driving" has a simple, safe, more-or-less equivalent substitute: texting while not driving. Facebook, insofar as it is a widely-adopted and community-preferred communications tool, does not: network effects and all that.
I think what you're suggesting is there are more people speculating on bitcoin's value than the value of some of these other examples - that is probably accurate, as in many ways the barriers to entry to start speculating on the value of bitcoin are low.
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The bigger story about SR is that Bitcoin price did not collapse 10x after the shutdown. Which shows that Bitcoin is used as gold, speculative store of wealth. And so it reasserts itself as a viable wealth transport.
Something to keep in mind is that many people with the worst health prospects/problems (e.g. Medicare/Medicaid patients) are the least tech-saavy/have the worst access to tech-enabled solutions to addressing their health problems. These patients make up a non-trivial portion of any provider's patient list.

Kudos!
The future says there is a backlog of overvalued houses for the next 3-5 years. A house can be a good investment, but it becomes a bad investment if you are caught when the bubble bursts.
They are bundled with the devices in the EU.
Also, a lot of the wording in the feature paragraphs is strange. I'm not sure if English is your second language or if you're just trying too hard to explain things. If it's the latter, just keep it simple. For example - "In Gmail, labels are placed at the very left of emails subjects. This has for main consequence to decrease the visibility of the content of your emails." The second sentence there reads like an output from Google Translate.
It doesn't seem like "positions that require 'advanced tech sklls'" is the right measure for the size of the NYC tech sector. Surely Foursquare's office manager is a part of NYC's tech sector, but their job likely doesn't require "advanced tech skills".
I believe that's a laser. But you would have to make sure somehow that it wouldn't reflect off of any particles en route. Which would likely be impossible... unless the wavelength was very, very long, I think.

Also, the laser would spread out, but it would still be mostly in one direction.
Issues such as? I don't know as far as I know they just use IMAP. I do notice the occasional syncing issues though.
a small but vocal portion of the customer base that feels entitled to immaculately perfectly functioning devices because "they bought an Apple computer" (read: luxury)

This is more because one of Apple's slogans for OS X is "It just works.", not "it just works, but only on most hardware".

I agree, it's unreasonable to expect everything ever to run smoothly, but this is the expectation you set when you are brazen enough to market your gear as "it just works".
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I find it irritating that Mozilla now herds its Firefox users toward the Stub installer, and not the full offline-install redistributable binary.

It makes sense though. The modern browser is epitome of "the user is always online, and should always receive and run the latest version of code on the fly" execution model. Why not apply those assumptions to the execution environment too?
AIPO is a pre-runner to the Gallup polling organisation.

(http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hstpaper/amerinst.htm)

> The American Institute of Public Opinion was founded by Dr. George Gallup in 1935. The stated purpose of this organization was "impartially to measure and report public opinion on political and social issues of the day without regard to the rightness or wisdom of the views expressed."

> The institute conducted "Gallup polls" on a wide variety of issues. The results of these national surveys were then distributed to subscribing newspapers in the form of press releases.
Haha Woooow, that thread's too good to be true.
lol enjoyed the comments section

shirotsku
29 October 2013 2:31pm

"Go back in time to the 80s. Buy shares in Apple. Sell shares in 2009. Buy BitCoins. Sell BitCoins in 2013. Profit."

JenniDark "Directions unclear. Bought Blackberry shares.
Now what?"
Smart money's on Railroad shares. Buy, Buy, BUY!
Why are we asking them? It's our government.
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Agreed. I have no end of trouble with the couple business GApps domains I admin, I'd happily pay for an ad free personal account.
I agree with you 100% . A program, for example to do property transaction will solve problems in that sector. Unfortunately its a chicken egg problem. policy maker won't let a program replace manual processing which has high opportunity of doing wrong and get away with it.

On a side note Yes, Train reservation system is much better now compare to what it was back in 1990s. There is no room left of corruption. I guess India need a strong leader which is not in for profit and he/she may do such small deed which will help India evolve out of current state
How about people who don't feel like locking themselves to a certain job and/or wage level, just to be able to afford and maintain the lifestyle mid+ income earners see as a necessity (when it most certainly isn't)? Freedom comes in many forms.
> Also, since a majority of our team is relocating from elsewhere, it's a big decision for them and it's turned out to be very valuable on their end as well.

This wasn't addressed in the original article other than the mention of paying for flights, and this relocation angle is probably a bit more of a factor than you probably expect regarding the willingness of candidates (95%) agreeing to do it.

If someone is moving to a new city, getting a paid trip to visit the city for a week while considering a job is a win. A candidate could even potentially interview off-hours with other companies on their dime, while exploring what the city has to offer and look into housing, schooling, etc.

If this trial week was mostly local candidates, the 95% being willing to sacrifice vacation time would be much more surprising (and potentially more risky, since I'm assuming most candidates aren't telling their current employers that they are doing this).

If these are mostly out-of-area candidates, it's not all that surprising that they would be willing to take a paid week of work and a free trip to see whether relocating makes sense for them.

Most wouldn't accept a position in a new city without getting the chance to look at the city, and what better way than a free trip?
Great! Consider giving a background color to the menu at the top right, improve footer

Also, there is a typo on green button (Take a feautre tour)
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+1 for AirMail. Its developer is moving quickly to get issues resolved.
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I was amused to read in reviews of new iPad keyboards from logitech and belkin that they charge via micro USB. So that points out one of the big negatives: anyone who can reasonably avoid using it will, even first tier, brand name iPad accessory makers. Clearly they didn't think it was "much much better", at least not enough to pay whatever Apple was asking to use it.
Thing is though, that the primary purpose of money is not to store wealth, but to exchange it for stuff.

Bitcoin does not beat regular coins when it comes to that yet.
Pleased to see they've backed off on the draconian Java restrictions. I now see (with an up-to-date plug-in) three options: always or never active, or ask to activate, with the latter then prompting as a one-time or remembered choice. This seems a much more reasonable balance between trying to protect security and making sure people can get work done than some of the other proposals in recent discussions.
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You are very right. I was actually not arguing in favor of more complicated compression, but instead for more efficient access to data. Certainly, iterating though array and map items to get to the next element is not efficient.
Someone bought two pizzas for 10,000 bitcoin in 2009. So... that's looking like a wise investment.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/11/mf_bitcoin/

(From the 20/20 hindsight department.)
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Wow. So that's what a sense of entitlement looks like!